Ps 119, John 3, 2 Cor. 5, (some John Piper)

Forever, o Lord, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. Your faithfulness endures to all generations. Oh, how sweet are your words to my taste, father; sweeter than honey to my mouth.

I do not stray from your precepts. Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are a joy to my heart and they save my soul.

The faith you have given me and called me too, Lord, is not a matter of demands and resolutions and willpower. Rather, it is a matter of what I love, what I delight in, of what tastes good to me.

By your call, Father, and by your grace, Lord Jesus, I have been born again. There is a new man in me who is born of the spirit of God. The Light has come into my world and I love the Light.

I am in Christ, therefore, I am a new creature. By your presence, Lord, I have a new nature. The new has come in me. I no longer regard myself after my flesh, instead, I thank God that, by the grace and life of my Lord Jesus, I have become the righteousness of God in Christ.