Conundrum

Father, this morning I pray for you to work your good will in us. Stir the deepest contents of our hearts. Bring even the darkest things to the surface so that you can shine your light on them. Surface the ugly stuff so that you can skim it off. So it can be removed.

I pray, Father, for this place we seem to often remain—this place of doing what we don’t want to do and not doing what we do want to do. Those words of Paul’s were certainly guided by you Spirit, dictated by his breath for they reveal the conundrum of human nature.

Even this week I have found myself struggling and fighting in this place. Doing what I don’t want to do. Repeating things I know are wrong. Not even engaging in what I know is right.

Father, please help us today. This day please help us to stop the pattern. Change our desires. Reveal our desires for exactly what they are. And help us exchange them for yours. Help us to do what is right regardless of how much our flesh doesn’t want to do so. Help us not to the wrong regardless of how much our flesh wants to.

Father, I ask for your intervention in our lives today. Only your intervention and intercession will heal us.

I know the good I must do, but if I don’t do it, Father, then it is sin.

Father, have mercy on us today. Forgive us because sometimes we don’t know what we do and sometimes we do.

Amen.