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Context
Scripture Reading: Psalm 90
Sermon Text: 2 Samuel 21:1-22
Prayer
Father,
We, all of us here, were born as rebels against you. Though you have redeemed many of us here today, we still fall short of the life modeled by your Son. Our hearts and actions fall short of his love.
We are rash to make commitments and often fickle in following through. We have hurt one another with carelessness and unnecessary words. We have failed to care for the harm we cause or fail to make amends. When we are sinned against, our hearts can struggle eek out the forgiveness that you have bountifully lavished on us.
We have set our hopes in created things. We have turned your gifts that you meant to lead us to you into curses that lead us away from you. We set our hearts on stories, games, and gadgets. Our hearts are enamored with these things before any action reveals it, and we often fail to steer our hearts toward their deeper delight in you.
We have been prideful. Even the good is often done in efforts to glorify ourselves apart from you. We think much of our image before others.
We have not properly numbered our days to apportion them to your purposes. We do not treat our tasks as if they are from you. We strive for ends that you have made futile and vain. We strive to be placed well in a creation that is passing away, rather than for the new creation that we do no yet see, as if we do not believe you that there will be a new creation.
But you are faithful when we are not. You will bring the new creation and deliver us from these bodies of death, from the flesh that serves sin. Until that time, please continue in patience with us.
We ask this in the name of your righteous Son, Christ Jesus. Amen.