I'm Sorry!

Psalms 51:10 Create in me a clean
heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
I find myself continually talking to the kids about being truly sorry.
When one wrongs the other I say, 'Tell your brother or sister you

are sorry.'......just to hear them murmur a fake, half pronounced - sorry.

Then I find myself saying, 'Say it like you mean it.'

Then they say an ever so rehearsed - sorry, just to please mom

and go on about their business as if they are off the hook.....

I thought of a common scenario and had to ask myself. What would I feel like if one day my kids realized that they could consistently disobey me and rationalize that “It’s ok, no matter what I do, mom will always love and forgive me”. I can tell you, I think it would probably really hurt. We want our kids to be loving and honest and behave well toward us and others....not just because they should....but because they want to.

How much more must our heavenly Father want these things from us?

How must He feel when we consistently allow ourselves to behave badly

because we know He’s a loving and forgiving Father?

I don’t know about you, but I need a radical change of heart today.

I need the Lord to perform some open-heart surgery.

We need to be the kind of children who yearn to love the Lord and

put Him and His will above every other desire.

There’s so much work to be done!