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+## Context
+
+Scripture Reading: Exodus 13:1-6
+
+Sermon Text: Luke 2:21-40
+
+## Prayer
+
+Father,
+
+We were born in bondage to sin.
+Though sin was a malevolent master, we clung to it and regarded You as our
+enemy.
+But for those of us who are called by Your name, You have delivered us from
+that domain of darkness to the kingdom of Your beloved Son.
+
+Yet even now, we are forgetful of what You have delivered us from, and we look
+back to a life of not trusting You.
+We fail in devoting what You have given us to Your kingdom and glory.
+We at times even purpose Your gifts to our old master, sin.
+
+We forget what You have done for us, and thereby fail in having grateful
+hearts.
+We forget to ponder the enormity of what You have done for us.
+We neglect Your prescribed reminders of Your grace to us.
+Often, we partake only by mere accident of being here on the right day, and
+even then, too often with thoughtless boredom.
+
+In what we speak about, we are too often people marked by lesser loves, but not
+a love of Christ and his people.
+We should be overjoyed with Christ, such that we cannot stop talking about Him.
+But our excitement often falls short of looking to the ultimate Treasure.
+
+We live as though You have not made us stewards of the Truth that is
+foundational to why all things were created.
+We live as though You have not given us a great calling to live lives that
+speak incessantly to the great hope for which creation groans.
+
+We do not delight as we should in the King that You have given.
+We live for lesser kings, for sports, for movies, for games, for family.
+We live for our own kingdoms, for prestige and money, for our own
+accomplishments.
+We live for lesser delights.
+
+Now, on the grounds that You gave Your Son to redeem us, to pay the debt to
+Justice accrued by our sins, we ask that count our record clean.
+Based on Your promises, please allow us to take for ourselves the righteousness
+of Your Son, Jesus.
+
+It is in His great and holy name that we ask this.
+Amen.