“You humble me Lord
You humble me Lord
I'm on my knees empty
You humble me Lord
You humble me Lord
So please, please, please forgive me”
- From Humble Me by Norah Jones
Two of our congregation, Scott Jamison and Claire Andrews, sang this Norah Jones cover (actually written by Kevin Breit), in an astounding set, when they supported Steven Curtis Chapman last night at Fitzroy. As they sang it I saw it as a wonderful song to build to confessional prayer around and we did it this morning with a short liturgy I wrote, bookended with a paraphrase of the song and some of God’s main judgements against the people in the prophecy of Hosea, which we are following in our preaching series just now. Download or spotify the song and use it in your own confessional devotions.
Lord humble us
We are on our knees
Please please forgive us
For being distracted by other idols of the heart
For simply going through the motions of religion
For the times we don’t acknowledge you as God
For not showing mercy where mercy is needed
Lord humble us
We are on our knees
Please, please forgive us.
AMEN
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Posted by: John T | 20/11/2011 at 10:10 PM