Written by The Attributes of God
All people are like grass and all their glory is like the flower of the field. The grass withers and the flower fades, because Your breath, O Lord, blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. The grass withers and the flower fades, but Your word, O God, stands forever. (Isaiah 40:6–8) How great are Your signs, O God, and how mighty are Your wonders! Your kingdom is an eternal kingdom; Your dominion endures from generation to generation. (Daniel 4:3)
Pause to reflect on these affirmations about the person, powers and perfection of God.
The Works of God
You are the good Shepherd, Lord Jesus; You lay down Your life for the sheep. You are the good Shepherd; You know Your sheep and Your sheep know You—just as the Father knows You and You know the Father—and You lay down Your life for the sheep. (John 10:11, 14–15) Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13)
Take a moment to consider the greatness of God’s wonderful works.
My Relationship to God
Whom have I in heaven but You? And there is nothing on earth I desire besides You. My flesh and my heart may fail, but You, O God, are the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Those who are far from You will perish; You have cut off all who are unfaithful to You. But as for me, it is good to be near You. I have made You my refuge, Lord God, that I may tell of all Your works. (Psalm 73:25–28) I will give You my heart and let my eyes delight in Your ways. (Proverbs 23:26)
Pause to thank God for the relationship that you enjoy with Him in Jesus Christ.
The Character I Want to Cultivate
I will imitate You, O God, as Your beloved child, and I will walk in love, just as Christ loved me and gave Himself up for me as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to You. (Ephesians 5:1–2) This is love: that I walk in obedience to Your commandments, O God. And this is the commandment I have heard from the beginning: I should walk in love. (2 John 6)
Take a moment to ask the Lord for the grace to grow in godly character.
My Relationship to Others
Knowing the fear of You, Lord, I will seek to persuade others. (2 Corinthians 5: 11) All things are from You, O God, who reconciled us to Yourself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: namely, that You were reconciling the world to Yourself in Christ, not counting our trespasses against us. And You have committed to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though You, O God, were appealing to others through us—we implore them on Christ’s behalf to be reconciled to You. (2 Corinthians 5:18–20)
Pause to review your relationships with others and to commit them to the Lord.
