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Friday... We can choose our response.


Friday... We can choose our response.

We can be a defeatist, always discouraged, ready to throw in the towel or we can be confident.

King David writes in Psalm 26:1 (AMP), "Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity; I have [relied on and] trusted [confidently] in the Lord without wavering and I shall not slip." Now he did slip in a weaker moment but he confessed and came back. There were consequences but he came back. Yes, we may be determined to not slip in a time when our humane takes over but if we do we then have a choice.

Judas when he betrayed Jesus saw that he had fallen, he had really slipped but he didn't repent, he killed himself. In Matthew 27:5, "He went away and hanged himself." Now Peter when he denied Jesus it says in Matthew 26:75, "He went outside and wept bitterly [in repentance]." Now the rest of Jesus' disciples ran away when Jesus was arrested but they also came back and God used them in an unbelievable way to spread the Good News of what Jesus death and resurrection really meant.

Now we as individuals at times need to stop and repent and confess that we have slipped. Yes, we have confidently determined to not slip but if we do we just need to stop and confess it,

And even if we haven't slipped we need to do what David did in verse 2 (MSG) and ask, "Examine me, God, from head to foot, order your battery of tests, Make sure I'm fit inside and out." We need to do that on a regular basis. And here is the reason why. Verse 3 says, "So I never lose sight of your love, but keep in step with you, never missing a beat."

Yes we can determine to never slip but we also need times of honesty before God before we might and after we do.

So, we need to start our day with praise and thanksgiving and also with honesty and confession of where we have and could slip.  As verse 1 in the NLT says, "Declare me innocent, O Lord for I have acted with integrity." In other words I have been honest with you and confessed where I've slipped. Maybe our attitude and response with our spouse or our kids or those at work hasn't been right or whatever area we could be slipping in. I confess that to you God. We need to be honest in our daily walk with God and others and then see what happens. 

Yes, we can choose our response before and after. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

  





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