I want your love, I need your grace

Consider Psalm 26.

Whether I'm crawling out of the void of sin or scrambling up the cliff of despair, I need Your grace. Every firm patch of ground, every foothold is only found by Your grace. With every step, every push, every pull, I call for Your grace. And You answer; You answer in love, proving again and again Your perfect faithfulness. Day by day, I call, You answer, and I find another step. By Your faithfulness I learn Your love. Even when I am steeped in filth and darkness, You are ever ready to show me the height of Your love. All I can do is return in kind and love You back with my imperfect love. Oh what a delight it is to taste Your love.

Now a thought: once on Your path, I so easily slip into complacency, forget that I still need Your grace. Just as it is only by Your grace that I come to You, it is only by Your grace that I stay near You. What would my days look like if every day I called out to You with that overwhelming sense of Need? What would I see through Your eyes?

Dear Father, I need Your grace to live today. I love you Lord.