Today's Prayer:
O God, the dark is not dark to you.
You see in us the remnant of our old selves, still gasping for breath and contending to rule us.
Our wrong is not hidden from your loving gaze.
In your power, You are keenly aware of the ways our sin seeks to drag us back down into the pit.
We confess the ways we knowingly and unknowingly reject the life of freedom you have given us.
Our selfishness, our pride, our fear, our desires, our addictions and our sloth.
Our insatiable desire to be seen, Our doubts, our lusts, our pettiness and our violence. They writhe around in us - echoes from the heart of stone that once beat in our souls.
But you, O God, have done a mighty work.
You have cleansed us, washed us, made us new and declared us good-to-go in your sight.
You have both absorbed our wrong and bestowed on us all of your right-ness.
A holy exchange of which we are not worthy but lovingly accept in bewildered gratitude. In the moments that we think we are awesome, remind us how you’ve rescued us.
In the moments that we think we are awful, remind us how you’ve rescued us.
We confess that all our sinful desires in this life point to an eternal truth.
That we are hungry.
For thine is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever…AMEN.
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Episode 5