“Your faithfulness will be my shield and my rampart….” Psalm 91:4b
Today, Lord Jesus, I walk in amazement under the canopy of your love, knowing that you look at me, not with tolerance, or thinly disguised disgust because of my stubbornly selfish responses, but you see me clothed in your righteousness!
You give me the opposite of what I deserve. You look on me with delight, with joy, with pleasure, glad to have me as your child, as your brother, in your family, in your Kingdom.
And You call me to meet with you each day as you stoop low to gather me to your heart, enjoying our interaction.
I praise you that, contrary to all logic, you revel in our relationship, you delight in doing good to me, you rejoice in being my rampart, you savor shielding me from harm.
And all this when I deserve the opposite: there is no earthly reason for your love, Lord Jesus; no, only heavenly reasons. And that is enough for me! I thank you form the bottom of my heart and bow before you in awe, then rising up to walk with you into the new day. Thank you, Lord.