BEING IN A MARRED or broken relationship hardens us to love. We feel we must steel ourselves from real or possible pain. This is evermore true for us and our Creator. Hiding, however, turns us rock-hard and leaves us moored in a lonely land. Confession is an act of bravery. It’s vulnerability that allows God’s love, grace, and redemption to flow through our very pores. Confession opens us to the beauty of being in a relationship with God. Today’s Sunday Psalm is a prayer of confession to dissolve our rock-hard hearts.
Great Healer:
We confess:
Granite guilt calcifies our hearts and minds.
Crushing us under tectonic weight.
Enemies sledgehammer us with lies,
Steely abuse too massive to face.
We are shattered and scattered like chert,
Sharp-edged and broken off from the whole.
Our Master’s design usurped, unworked,
Abandoned after our ruinous fall.
Sin tarnishes even our finest work.
Minds, hands, and hearts, harden with misuse;
Beauty and brilliance masked by dirt.
Faith, and hope, and love sorely bruised.
Pollution spews from decayed horizons
We have pocked the earth by waging war.
With shards sharp and hard as diamonds
We lacerate others to keep the score.
Creator of love:
Heal us through the death-altering gift
And expansive embrace of your Son.
Our fractured and faulted lives forgive.
Reclaim us, reframe us as your own.
Remake us fearfully and wonderfully;
Recreate us from marrow to bone;
Write grace into the heart of our story;
Knit us fresh in your protective womb.
Dissolve our desolate hearts of stone.
Redeem us with hearts for you alone.
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Read more on confession here: A Sunday Psalm Of Confession Of Our Goodness And Brokenness, Why Does Life Feel Like God Is Playing A Cosmic Game With Us?
yes,… thank you for this,… so needed, in so many places,…
You’re welcome. May God soften our hearts.
The healing benefits of “Confession” are absolutely real. God’s amazing grace!
Amen.