“O Lord, open my lips, that my mouth may declare your praise. For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.”
-Psalm 51: 15-17
“…outward religious observances were no substitute for a right attitude toward God and sin. We ourselves forget this. We try to compensate for sin by our twentieth-century sacrifices. We atone by trying harder, by being extra kind to someone we have hurt, by praying longer and more frequently. Yet none of these things are acceptable to God. He wants a broken spirit, a contrite heart, He wants us simply to say, “There is nothing I can do to make up for what I have done. I have done something which you, and you alone can put right.” Like Lady Macbeth we rub our stained hands crying, “Out, out damned spot!” when all that is needed is to show God the spot and say, “I cannot make it clean.”
-excerpt from 'Daring To Draw Near' by John White
Take deliberate times to reflect on the MAJESTY of Christ
Job 38-40:7 : an awesome view into who God is compared to little ol' us. very humbling too.
“Now gird up your loins like a man..” <---made me laugh (God is funny ^____^)
