This life is crazy loaded with all kinds of pitfalls and traps. How furious is His love to reach us here. How unrelenting is His resolve to deliver and redeem us.

Our minds even now writhe and twist in the mire of pride for gain grabbing at lesser things meant for destruction. They are meant for destruction, not us.

You never tire to tell us You love us. The only way not to know is if we plug our ears and close our eyes. Even then You find a way.

Guide us LORD, like You did for Israel even though every step of the way they looked back to Egypt. It is so tempting and easy to do even while we are in the midst of You. Even while You are moving the seas and making paths where there are none, we look for what our hands can do, for we are so afraid.

Trust? In this life? People are too afraid to get married so instead they play the part. They’ll live together, have kids together, but to make it real when everything falls apart here, the only question is “Why?”

You have so much more for us than we will ever know or be able to see on our own. Give us Your vision.

The deceitfulness of wealth distracts many and gets us to look elsewhere for our hope. We live in the cult of self though we don’t know that the membership dues are our soul. We all live here, we all know how it is here.

Though our acceptance is already assured bought with an eternal covenant in blood, we would trade it for the momentary acceptance of those we can manipulate. Oh, to have a god we can fashion in our own image. One that we can control by committing the necessary acts we determine.

But that god wouldn’t die for us, we wouldn’t die for us. We’d need that god to perform and build confidence in our ability to appease it so that others recognize our importance and our necessity. They need us, or our god will send them to Hell.

But Yours was a different plan, a different path. You made the definition of love, something everyone needs, beyond our grasp. Even Jesus did not grasp it, but He became the fullest form of it. And He gives love’s inheritance to any and all who believe in Him.

No one has the monopoly on Your Love, there is no other mortal man whose favor determines our worth. The Son of God, the only One who is beyond bribing, the only One who can not be persuaded by lies and deceitfulness, the only One who is out of our reach to control looks upon us with Love unconditional.

The only question is “Why?” He died and rose again for what? He fulfilled prophecy, what does that mean to me? He lived a sinless life to become the perfect sacrifice to conquer sin and death’s grip on me. He provided a way through the traps and pitfalls of this life to bless me beyond my days. But “Why?”

That was His plan,
because He is love.

Now there is Hell, but from what I know it is chosen everyday by those who turn away from His free gift of love. In fact it is because of love that allows us the choice.

What do you choose?