Father -

help me to stop being a legalist.

I confess that I choose legalism on a constant basis.

I confess that I do not truly know how to live in your love.

I confess that discipline seems more holy than submission to your love.

I am stuck in bondage once again and don't know how to get out. I am afraid to get out. I am afraid to live.

I find myself once again as the apostle paul cired out -- I do what I do not want to do...and the very thing I do not want to do I do. And the very thing I hate I do. What I want to do I do not do.