Merciful Lord, today we join the prayer of King David: “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me” (Ps. 51:10, 12). Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. Matthew 3:8

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:16-23 Evangelist D. L. Moody was speaking in a church when he held up a glass and asked, “How can I get the air out of this glass?”

Take care, siblings, that none of you has an unbelieving heart that turns from the living God. Exhort one another every day, so long as it is called “today.” – Hebrews 3:7-8a & 12-13 (adapted) God help me, I entered this day with a hardened heart.