"15 O LORD, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of GOD are a broken spirit; "A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART", O GOD, you will not despise."
Seeing things from another persons point of view isn't always the easiest thing to do. Everyone sees things from a viewpoint of where they are looking from. A millionaire with a bank account balance of $100 might be in bad shape, but the same $100 would represent great wealth to some. Being able to see things from where another is viewing them, from their perspective, might be more of a gift from GOD than one could imagine.
It is easy to praise the LORD when everything is going the way you think it should go. But seeing things from the perspective of "A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART" when things are running smoothly is not something that comes naturally. Being able to fix your vision on things above has a way of changing your course, a way of mapping a different direction for your life.
Psalms 51:10 says "Create in me a clean heart, O GOD, and renew a right spirit within me." For us to acquire a clean heart there must be Divine intervention. One definition of "contrite" is "filled with a sense of guilt and desire for atonement ". To understand that we are a broken people in need of atonement is one of the prerequisites for acknowledging that a HOLY GOD is what we need. To acknowledge that GOD is HOLY (Perfect) and we are not is the beginning of servanthood.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, I pray that I will have a sense of how lowly I really am by having "A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART". At the same time, cause me to grasp just how majestic YOU are and to realize that there are no limits to what YOU can accomplish. Accepting "A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART" is tremendously easier to accept when I understand the sacrifice YOU made to REDEEM my soul!
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