Folly cannot persist.  Illusion takes constant energy to maintain, just as anything which is falsely created.  Father, open my eyes to the assistance I have been giving the enemy in the perpetration of fraud upon myself and others.  What myths have I supported, what corrupted steps have I continued to follow in my own path and what bad advice or recommendations have I given causing others to pursue illusion?  Accountability is not just for those of whom I am critical.  Accountability begins with me.  How is my walk?  What behaviors am I modeling?  What role am I portraying for those in my influence sphere to copy or worse yet, avoid?

To have a blameless walk, I first have to repent of the walk I have been previously following.  Nothing happens until the truth is embraced.  Having confidence in my walk only comes when I have repeatedly reviewed my path with the Father, asked Him to remove that which is unpleasing to Him and exercised my free will to choose the correct step at the next juncture.  This is a process, but it does have gradients, measures, reflections and achievements along the way.  Not achievement based upon, I did this work or that work, but goals that are mentally measurable when sin is avoided and the Holy Spirit’s prompting and education have been followed.  Am I only capable of doing the right thing through the Holy Spirit’s discipline?  That is something on which to meditate.

Am I capable of doing good?  Probably not.  I know this that those things I do which are categorized as good can always be traced back to my relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.  It is clear to me that the good I did in my previous life always had the strings of self aggrandizement attached.  The only real good things I do now are through Christ living through me.  Sure I might fool myself or allow myself to fall pray to the illusion that I had some part in the whole transformation but in summary the glory has always been His.

I chose God because He first chose me.  I was saved because He offered me Grace.  I was transformed because He came to live inside me.  I reach others with love because He loved me enough to send me to them.  I will do great things which He has predestined me to do before the beginning of the world, through His strength, His counsel and His gifts.  I am truly a vessel.  My job is to keep myself clean after having been cleansed.  It isn’t easy, in fact it is impossible for natural man, o but thanks be to the Grace of God, I am not a natural man.  Praise you Father.  The name of Jesus upon my lips and my heart.  Amen.