Almighty God, Eternal Father, Son and Holy Spirit I come to You this day agreeing with You that I live in absolute dependency on You. You and You alone are my salvation. You alone are the source and substance of my life. You alone are “life within me”. Knowing that You have begun a good work within me that only You can bring to completion, I come to You to receive Your ongoing work of restoring my life. I come to You to be renewed in You and to receive the anointing of Your Holy Spirit to live in Your grace, authority and Power this day. I am utterly dependent on You and confident in Your eternal, faithful love for me that nothing can separate me from.
THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY Martin Luther said that the human heart is an idol factory. The truth is that we were created to know and live by the gracious rule of and in the Presence of God who created us. Our peace, our understanding of meaning and purpose can only be truly grounded in God who created us for that meaning and purpose. The rebellion of Adam and Eve, their decision to do the opposite of what God said would make for life, resulted in spiritual and ultimately physical death. They chose to believe they needed something more than what God had provided. Their doomed attempt to try and live life without reference to God as the ground of meaning and purpose did not make life fuller, but emptied it. They wanted to decide what was good and what was evil without God and the disintegration of human life was the consequence. Rather than living in the Presence of God and by the gracious rule of God all around them, they turned from wholeness to brokenness, from fulfilment to scarc...
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