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