Holy God:
Once again, your Spirit has drawn your people into your house. You’ve gathered us so that we can be your family together. You’ve gathered us so that we can hear from your Word. You’ve gathered us so that we can be changed and transformed into your likeness as we glorify you and make your name great in the earth.
We gather, most of all, because you have shown us your face in the face of Jesus. You have given us a glimpse of your glory. So help us to see you as we worship him. And help us to live for you as we go forth to do what he told us to do and to live as he showed us to live.
There is much we struggle to understand. He said that he came to set the captives free, and yet the jails are still full and getting more full all the time. He said that he came to give liberty to the oppressed, and yet the world is full of people who are under the thumb of others. Each of us knows something about some kind of oppression, even if it comes from the inside. He came to give sight to the blind, and yet the healing he brought to a few so long ago seems almost insignificant in comparison to the suffering so many feel in their bodies. Jesus did so much to renew the world, to make the world different. What happened?
Help us to see as he saw, to be empowered by the spirit as he was. Help us to look around at a world that is still very far from the way you intended it and to never be satisfied that this is the way it has to be. Help us to love and labor, to believe and dream, to take every moment of every day to do small and great things to finish the work our Lord began. Amen.
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