Psalm 17
I read the beginning of Psalm 17 where David talks about how no deceit is on his lips and how God finds no wrong in him and I immediately think of Isaiah 6:5 where Isaiah is in the presence of God and says that he is a man of unclean lips and comes from a people of unclean lips, and here is David with clean lips and I begin to wonder if David is seeing himself clearly. The beautiful thing about it is that whether or not David actually has clean lips is of little importance to being accepted by God. God accepts us in whatever manner we come to God as long as we come to God, the actually arrival is the important part.
God literally knows all of our failings, all of our sins, all of the times you and I stooped down low in the much and mire and hung out there for a long time, and yet God still accepts us the moment you or I come. I am the prodigal son who wanted my inheritance and then wasted it and God is the father that comes running. I am the son who stayed and lifted my attendance as overriding the repentance of another and God is still the father who tells me that all he has is mine, I must but ask. You are each of those sons as well, and God is the pursuing and giving father to you as well. So, maybe your lips are clean or maybe they are dirty, whatever state they are in they are welcome.
Have you tried to convince others [God] that you are better than you really are? How did that make you feel?
How have you been the two sons in Jesus's parable from Luke 15?
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