Day 2: Springs of life
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life (Proverbs 4:23 - ESV).
God Almighty, Son of God, Your eyes of blazing fire search hearts and minds (Revelation 2:18, 23). You reveal to us the condition of the human heart— deceitful above all things and desperately wicked (Jeremiah 17:9).
Many are offended by Your divine assessment, but You are God, and You know our inmost thoughts and motives. We need only look at our own natural inclinations, and at the world of evil around us to know that Your word speaks truth when it tells us that were sinful at birth, indeed from the time of conception (Psalm 51:5).
Yet You speak to us in love, not in condemnation, when You diagnose our true state, and offer us the cure You procured at great price. In love You call us into Your grace and plunge us into Your streams of mercy.
Thank You, God of compassion, for the blood of Your sacrifice that brings cleansing to our hearts (Hebrews 10:22). In deepest gratitude we offer them to You. Help us to keep them with all diligence, guarding the springs of life that flow from the fountains of Your grace.
Plenteous grace with Thee is found,
Grace to cover all my sin;
Let the healing streams abound;
Make and keep me pure within.
Thou of life the fountain art,
Freely let me take of Thee;
Spring Thou up within my heart;
Rise to all eternity.
~ Charles Wesley ~ Jesus Lover of My Soul ~ pub. 1740
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