Happy Lent! Standing in need of Grace

Poor Jeanette!  I had a frantic email from her this morning, asking if -PLEASE!- the information on our team form was wrong... I had the team flights listed as arriving & departing at the Santo Domingo airport - hours away from their current location!  I quickly double-triple-checked & sent her peace of mind that we are in & out of the Santiago airport!  phew! 
How much in need of grace we stand!  Not just for these perrenial mistakes, but much more for the actual rebellion & evil in our hearts.  Perhaps it was the Ash Wednesday effects of the Word on my heart, but even earlier this morning, in reviewing Psalm 139, I was struck by a fresh awareness of my own wicked heart.  Words that I had always taken as delivered against other folks of evil heart, I suddenly recognized as the old Adam in myself:
¹⁹ If only you would slay the wicked, O God!   Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;   your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,   and abhor those who rise up against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;  I count them my enemies.

Yet, in all that Jesus has done for me & is doing in me - that gift of faith by His grace, I cling to His promise of redemption!
 ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;  test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,  and lead me in the way everlasting.

AMEN!
...to the Cross!
Happy Lent!