Stop Living in the "-ed"

Psalm 24:7 Lift up your heads, O you gates; be lifted up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in.

She was the picture of a star-spangled beauty.  Her blond tresses were braided in an intricate pattern pulling her hair back so your eyes were drawn to the bright blue of her own.  Her eyes danced with joy as she twirled her glow-up necklace and sipped a grape slushie.

When said slushie hit the ground, her eyes pooled like two miniature oceans.  "I dropped-ed my slushie and I cried-ed," she moaned.  I wanted to chuckle at her addition of an ed to every word but it would have only added to her distress.

Today I am reading Psalm 24.  In this chapter David considers who can draw near to God.  A holy God can only be approached by the holy and upright.  The mistake I make is that holiness is something I do.

Are you ever tempted to bring up your mistakes to God? We affix an "ed" on our life and live in a perpetual cycle of yesterday's sin.  Jesus wants us to lift up our heads to invite Him into our today so we move beyond our yesterday.

Jesus, thank you for giving me a glimpse of You.  When I take my eyes off my flaws and look squarely into Your eyes of love, I am flooded with Your grace.  You take the "-ed" out of my life.