Holy God,
We remember this day a time when your Son went away to be alone in the wilderness, to fast and pray, to be alone with you. He took time out of his life to confront those things that were a temptation to him. He confronted the devil. Help us, through these forty days and always, never to run from those things within us that make us afraid, those places where the unknown and uncomfortable dwell, the broken places of unforgiveness and misdirected motives, of insecurity, of rage, of loneliness and hopelessness. We will do anything to hide from ourselves. We will invite any distraction. We will fill our lives with noise and people and a thousand excuses. But the demons still whisper to us and the wilderness cannot be contained. Give us the courage to finally face it, to face ourselves, to have the guts not to run away from whatever we’ve been running from for so long.
We thank you that when we go to the wilderness, we don’t go alone. We go with you. We go together. And because you are there, it is you who give us comfort. You are the one who makes our hearts perfect. So we present ourselves to you. We want to give ourselves completely, but maybe we’re not quite ready for that yet. So take what we can give today, and grace us to give it all. Grace us to have a perfect heart totally given in love to you.
Amen.
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