A Character like Yours

Lord,

knowing my end before I ever began,

You have molded me and made me more and more like You

with every trial and triumph,

My disappointments have made an indelible mark upon the character of who I am yet to be.

The successes have been Yours,

building in me not a self-confidence,

but a faith confidence

because each gain I made was directly from

Your Hand.

You are faithful.

And I am reminded of this each time I remember those moments--

speaking before a group of women

 for the very first time

and watching You move among them;

teaching children about

the Cross

and 

Your sacrifice

and seeing them look for You

on the other side of the chasm created by our sins;

writing down those moments when 

You have moved in

my life

to make me more like

You.

My past failures and my past successes

drove me

to You,

whether I knew it or not.

You orchestrate every moment of my life,

calling me to be

more,

pressing me on to meet

who I am destined

to be,

holding me

in spite of my wrestling,

embracing me in the same arms that stretched across the beam of the cross

for me.

Show me, Lord,

show me who I am in You.

Grow me to be the spitting image of my Father

and

CONTINUE 

...to create in me the desire to know You,

...to push me so I will be who You have created me to be,

...to teach me those things I need to know in order to have the character

of Christ,

to prepare me for my date with destiny.

Don't give up on me, my Creator.

Redeem this life, this person.

Redeem me

for Your Glory!