🙌 It's the Friday Call to Worship! 🙌

I had GREAT intentions this week, yet somehow I managed to really stuff things up. In an effort to strengthen a relationship, I dwelt on our weaknesses instead. It was a full-on disaster. I feared the words I couldn't un-say caused damage I couldn't undo.

My hope for "greater things to come" turned out to be a smokescreen that ignited and burned like a wildfire. The greater things I hoped for, without even realizing it, were really things to make me feel better. I wasn't trying to bring heaven down to earth or call out God's glory in another person. I was operating out of my own flesh to solve my own problems.

Anyone else ever been there? Have you ever inflicted or opened another's wound you thought might never heal? Or perhaps sustained one yourself? Have you ever remorsed over irreversibles and feared that even the future had permanent damage?

Even more pertinent on this Friday morning: Have you ever met the One who unsealed the tomb, folded his own burial clothes, and reversed the curse of sin and death forever? The irreversible reversed. The unhealable healed.

Casualities of life, accidental or intentional, determine the notches on our timelines. But there is nothing - not one thing - that cannot be redeemed for even greater things when entrusted to the One whose blood cannot be un-spilled.

There will be consequences as we fumble and detours that didn't have to be. But there will never be an unforgivable sin because the blood of Jesus covers us. The freedom in His love will not be held at bay by our own shortcomings.

Today's song was my anthem this week as I submitted myself to His sovereignty and trusted His goodness to overshadow my weaknesses.

"Plead the Blood" by Chris Davenport, Brandon Lake and Cody Carnes