Holy God:
We thank you for Jesus. We thank you that you took flesh, that in him you showed what you had intended for human life. You showed us the way to live fully, fully alive and fully loving. We thank you that he died to heal the broken relationship between you and every person, that he rose again to prove who he was and to demonstrate that you would be true to your promise to make us and all things new.
This simple Gospel has meant everything to us--it has brought us from death to life. It has made us see the difference between drawing breath and living life to its fullest. Knowing Jesus has meant everything to us.
From time to time we have lost our way. We have made our lives in Christ about something else--about religious busyness, or following moral rules, or knowing the right things or doing things the right way or a million other diversions from simple trust and joy in you.
So help us to find new life today in the place where we found it at the first. Help us to look Jesus square in the face and be overwhelmed by his grace and love, to give ourselves entirely to Him as he has given himself entirely to us, to know ourselves to be forgiven and beloved, to trust him completely and nothing else.
For Jesus, who made us and all things new, who is the beginning and end of our hope and the one in whom we place all our trust, we are eternally grateful.
Amen.
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