Prayer 13

Lord, your counsel liberates your servants and we are grateful. We are striving for character, and we are obtaining it deep within ourselves. We are experimenting with righteousness, and we are establishing it from the inside out. Lord, the people of the world are cartoon characters who try to convince us to complain. We shrug and go about our way. They are cartoons, who idolize personality. Some draw us in with their niceness, never saying a single confrontational thing. Some intoxicate us with their sadness, longing to tell us the saddest thing we've ever heard. Some distract us with their comedy, creating loud laughter at anyone's expense. Let us not be puppets to personality, Lord. Personality is a heart-muzzle, and pursuing it is self-stultifying.
We want Kingdom character.
Guide us to it.
Guard us from the sneaky traps of personality.
(Proverbs 7:1-6)