A Liturgy for When You’ve Sinned Again
Did you do it again? The thing that you said you would stop doing the last time? And the time before that? Take heart. The mercy that the immortal God has given us in Christ is stronger and more consuming than the sin that wages war in your mortal body. If you’ve sinned again, pray this prayer:
O Lord, when my lips
Have let loose another
Lie
When my heart has schemed
Another sinister and
Selfish plot
When my mind has meandered
Mercilessly on what is not
Mine for my imagination behold
And when I have despised
Your commands over
And over
And over
Again
Would You direct my gaze to Calvary?
Where the Son in whom You are pleased
Was pleased to lay down His life
For me
The hill
Where the Guiltless donned
The garment of
The guilty
Remind me
O God
That repentance reaps
Restoration
and
That because You are
Eternally pleased with Christ
You are eternally pleased
With me.
Amen.
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