beautiful disaster

So after running through everything in my head and falling back in despair, knowing that I'm so steeped in sin that I can't do a thing to save myself and have to rely on God's grace, I ask Him what makes a perfect Christian. What kind of person does He want?

The answer comes back to me the same way it has hundreds of times before, yet it strikes me again as remarkably simple yet intrinsically different from any other answer one might expect.

A broken spirit and a contrite heart. That is what He desires. He will honour those who lay their brokenness before Him and allow Him to mould them to be what He wants them to be.

It's going to be a long walk, but He will be faithful to finish the work He began in us.

jac was here with you 7/11/2005 10:25:00 pm

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My Destiny
Psalm 46 (NASB)
God is our refuge and strength,
A very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change
And though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam,
Though the mountains quake at its swelling pride.

There is river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be moved;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.

Come, behold the works of the Lord,
Who has wrought desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.
"Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."
The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold.