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Generous in love - God, give grace!
Huge in mercy - wipe out my bad record.
Scrub away my guilt,
Soak out my sins in your laundry.
I know how bad I've been;
My sins are staring me down.
You're the only One I've violated, and you've seen
It all, seen the full extent oLanguagef my evil.
You have all the facts before you;
Whatever you decide about me is fair.
I've been out of step with you for a longtime,
In the wrong before I was born.
What you are after is truth from the inside out.
Enter me then, conceive a new, true life.
From The Message//Remix: The Bible in Contemporary Language. p. 964
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A David Psalm made me remember:
Back in college I was walking around campus with a friend one night. (Quite rare in my college years mind you.) When we were in front of some building I picked up a piece of this red piece of plastic, took out a sharpie so she wouldn't notice and wrote the words "out of step" on it. Not in the same context as in the Psalm, but nonetheless...
I still have this primary source...in my room pinned to a cigar box.
"Can't give up. can't give up, I can't give up
Out of Step with the world."
I.M. of M.T.
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