Father – the truth about me is that often I choose sin:
Sometimes I choose hatred. Sometimes I choose slander.
Sometimes I choose envy. Sometimes I choose greed.
Sometimes I choose pettiness. Sometimes I choose lust.
Sometimes I choose gossip. Sometimes I choose pride.
Sometimes I choose self-reliance.
Sometimes I choose self-righteousness.
Sometimes I choose self-aggrandizement.
Sometimes I choose dishonesty.
Sometimes I choose unkind words.
Sometimes I choose to ignore the obvious needs around me.
Sometimes I choose to hoard my resources.
Sometimes I choose to neglect Your command to share the gospel.
The list of things I wrongly choose could go on and on. And sometimes
I act on these things in ways that are darker than I ever care to state.
Each time I make such a choice, I choose death.
Today, I ask that You breathe life into my soul afresh
and enable me to choose life – to choose You and Your ways.
Kurt Bjorklund, 1968- , American Minister and author or
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For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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