We attribute this little happening to reverse psychology, but the same principle is also called a paradoxical injunction in psychology and restriction mindset in intuitive eating. But then my husband or my father-in-law chime in, telling him “Judah can’t go Mom, but I’ll go.” Instantly my son rises up and runs with vengeance to the bathroom screaming, “No, I’ll go potty.” It goes like this, If I tell my 2 year old to go to the bathroom he 100% of the time stubbornly tells me, “I don’t want to go to the bathroom.” Even if he clearly needs to pee.
Lord clean me up series#
Amen.This is the third post in a series I’m doing about the Intuitive Eating principles and scripture, if you haven’t already, check out the first two posts here:Įver been around a toddler? Or better yet, tried telling them what they should or shouldn’t do? You have made me clean again, and I will not stop talking about your amazing grace. Father, I put aside shallow petitions of forgiveness and thoughtless acts of ritual and offer you my broken heart. Instead, you desire a spirit broken because our relationship has been severed. Lord God, I know you do not care about religious formalities or traditions that have lost their meaning. Breathe into me your Holy Spirit so that I may know your strength so that I may not fail you again. Oh Father, gift me with a willing spirit. Take all that I have been and all that I have done and use it to create something beautiful and useful. So God, forgetting all that was, please start over with me. I desire to be right in your sight and to know again the joy of being made whole. Clean me up.Never stop working at the stains of sin that linger. Work in me so that I may look more like you. I have walked my way, out of sync with your divine will, for so long.
After all the lies and selfishness, whatever you decide to do with me will be fair. I know that it has done so much to alienate us from one another.
I know that it is my self-centeredness that has hurt you. My sin, my rebelliousness, and my independence stares me in the face. I look at what I have done it is always there to mock me. Your heart of love erases my sin and eases the guilt that threatens to strangle me. Your love never fails to draw me back into your arms. It is just like you to show me great compassion even in my sinfulness. You give me your love when I do not deserve it. What you will find below is my 'sinner's prayer,' penned with love for God and an earnest desire to serve him more completely. Desiring to be more like David, I even wrote my own version of his prayer. I have read it many times, and I have poured over the words that spilled from his heart. In Psalm 51, we read David's prayer of confession after his affair. I want to pray like one who really loves God, and I want to live in the freedom of being forgiven. I want to know what a truly honest heart looks like. Therefore, I want to learn from this imperfect man, this one whom God favored. David teaches us about repentance and moving on. He cheated on God.He denied his morals.He failed to be a man of integrity.ĭavid sinned, but the beauty of his life, like the other Biblical characters, is not in his successes but in the way he handled his failures. David was passionate about God, but in a moment of weakness, his flesh ruled his heart and he committed adultery. Loved by God, he had everything he could possibly want: kingdoms, riches, influence, and talent. These were ordinary men and women who loved God, but failed to lived blameless.ĭavid is another famous Biblical character. The disciples James and John fought over who would be the most important in Jesus' kingdom. Samson was gifted with great strength but was weak in a woman's arms. Moses threw a temper tantrum because things were not going as he had planned. This ancient history chronicles the lives of men and women whom God loved despite their willful wanderings into sin. Nearly every page records their moral failures, their selfish acts of rebelliousness, their defiant nose thumbing at God. Hot-tempered leaders, men of little resolve, prostitutes, and faithless friends are the main characters of the Bible.
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