REGARDLESS

God, Our God. 

I pray for you to illuminate our darkness. I ask, Father, that your light would shine even in and around the deepest and sharpest of corners of me (of us)--that you would shine your light in these dark places--so that darkness will have to flee. All things hidden in the darkness will be exposed...and exposure to the light cleanses. It heals. So, I do pray for all the hidden and jaundiced places in us to be exposed to the light.

Exposed in order to heal, not in order to shame. Exposed in order to cleanse, not in order to condemn.  

Father, please hold us in the palm of your engraved hand. Please hold us close to your strong side. Cover us with the HESED of your love which is covenant love and is based on regardless. This covenant was established in blood. And it is only because of the promise of that blood that we can rest in the regardless. We can rest because You made your promises and you are faithful (whether we are or not)—that is the REGARDLESS. It is not that we cause anything to be in place for the regardless. NO! It is Jesus' and his sacrifice, his blood, that bought the regardless for us. We may not understand it. We may not comprehend it. We may not even believe it at times...but the regardless was rooted and established in the covenant promises of HESED. 

Help us today to see. To see the regardless and that it was meant for us. All we have to do is ask. 

 

Father, I want the regardless. I want to live in the blessing of regardless. Help us to abide there.

Amen