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