Category Archives: Perfect

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in awestruck gratitude:

“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ…”
(Philemon 1:25)

Oh, Jesus.

Your grace.

Your loving, perfect, immeasurable

matchless grace.

Everything You’ve done for me in the past.
Everything You’re doing for me right now.
Everything You’ll do for me in the future.

My every sin forgiven.
Even the worst ones.

I’m Your heir!
All You have is mine.

Eternity with You in heaven –
forever and ever and ever, without end.

And all of it – absolutely all of it –

wholly undeserved.

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Isaiah 26:10-12; Zechariah 12:10; Luke 2:40; Luke 17:10; John 1:14-17; Acts 4:33; Acts 17:25; Romans 3:23-24; Romans 8:17; Ephesians 1:6-7; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 Thessalonians 4:17

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

 

Open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“They will come trembling to the LORD…”
(Hosea 3:5)

That’s not a bad way to come to You, Jesus.

It sure beats coming to You full of pride.
It’s better than coming to You burning with anger.
It’s preferable to coming to You eaten up with doubt.

When I come to You with trembling

it’s because I realize how small I am
and how awesome You Are

how flawed and sinful I am
and how perfect, righteous and holy You Are.

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Exodus 3:5; Leviticus 11:44; Psalms 2:11; Isaiah 33:14; Hosea 11:10; Mark 5:33; Philippians 2:12

Friday, July 5, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with wholehearted adoration:

“…the priest will make atonement for the man’s sin…”
(Leviticus 4:26)

That’s the way it used to work, Jesus.

You’re the One who set it up.

No longer.
There’s a new Priest in town:

I don’t have to go to another person any longer –

somebody as messed up as I am.

I can go straight to You – perfect, sinless, pure, all-powerful.

You don’t forgive me because of my words.
You forgive when You see true repentance in my heart.

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1 Samuel 16:7; Isaiah 30:15; Hosea 14:1; Matthew 3:8; Luke 5:32; Luke 24:46-47; 2 Corinthians 7:10

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

 

Fully open your heart, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“But now he has reconciled you…”
(Colossians 1:22)

I see those words, Jesus

but I don’t understand them.

You’re perfect, sinless, pure, holy.

I’m the exact opposite.

How can the North and South poles be joined together?
How can east and west meet?

A miracle.
We’re talking a miracle.

But as impossible as my reconciliation to You seems

the fact that You would even want
to be reconciled to the likes of me

is the greatest miracle of all.

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Psalms 52:8; Romans 5:8; Romans 5:10; 2 Corinthians 5:18; 2 Corinthians 5:20; Ephesians 2:8-9; 1 John 3:1

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

 

Pray this Lazaroo with earnest desire:

“The LORD is righteous…”
(Lamentations 1:18)

That’s what terrifies me about my relationship with You, Jesus!

You’re righteous
I’m not.

You’re holy.
I’m not.

You’re perfect.
I’m not.

You’re sinless.
I’m not.

If friendship is built on commonality, I’m as far away from You as the east is from the west

which…come to think of it…
is how far You’ve removed my sins from me.

So there’s only one prayer I dare pray, isn’t there?

Be Yourself in me.

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Psalms 103:12; John 15:15; Romans 8:9-11; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Colossians 1:27; 1 John 1:9