– Today’s Community Scripture – 3/17/2025

Soak me in your laundry and I’ll come out clean, scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don’t look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I’ll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I’ll let loose with your praise.

Psalm 51:8–15 (MSG)

Key Verse – God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don’t throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Psalm 51:10–11 (MSG)

– Reflection:

GOD Dares Us To Pray This…

In the aftermath of adultery and murder, King David pleaded with God, begging Him not to cut him off. David understood what it meant to know God, to spend time with Him, to listen to Him and trust Him, to love and be loved by Him—and he dreaded losing that closeness, goodness, and truth- and he dreaded losing that So, in desperation, he invited God to do something new within him, allowing God to rebuild his heart in whatever way He wished. He surrendered himself completely to whatever work, journey, or adventure God might have in store for him, deciding to trust God more than himself. How about we do that, too? While we may not be guilty of adultery or murder, we are all sinners, carrying the stain of sin. “If we say we have no sin… the truth is not in us.” So how about we also invite God to do something new in us? How about we, too, surrender to whatever work, journey, or adventure God might have for each of us? And how about we do it together, as men and women? We’ll be better for it. God is brilliant, good, and loves us. Might it be scary? Sure, it might. Might it even be a little painful? Sure, it might. Will it be one of the best things we ever do? It will.

Where do we go from here?

“Do a new work in me, God. You’re brilliant and good, and you love me. So do whatever you’d like. And whatever it is, I’m in. I’ll trust you more than I trust myself.” When we ask this question, be ready for the changes in your life. They are coming, and it will be up to you to honor every moment of change that God presents in your life.

Our Prayer for Today

Father, please do something new in us, just as you did for David in his times of need. We ask for the same transformation in us that David needed for himself. Grant us the ability to become the people capable of doing the new things that bring GOD all the glory. Amen.