Lord, I don’t understand why men choose to do evil over good, wrong rather than right.

It is as Your word says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it”? Even the redeemed must battle the residual wickedness that is born in the heart.

Jesus, continue in me the work You have begun. Search me, test me, refine me like silver. Make my heart pure.

Lord, cleanse me from all wickedness for Your namesake.

“Songs in the Morning” Sandra Bivens Smith. Copyright ©️ 2023.