Holy God:
We gather today to give you praise. Many things have taken our attention this week. Many things have been the object of our praise and adoration. Many things have captured our imagination and inspired our passion. Today, we gather to remember that nothing truly matters in the light of your glory. Everything else will pass away, but only you, your love, and your eternal Kingdom will last forever.
We have spent our lives trying to move forward, trying to move up. From time to time we have pushed others out of the way. We have climbed over others, excluded others, and made others feel small. We have been hurt and angry when others have treated us with less than respect or have made us feel like outsiders.
Today, we remember your Son, who took flesh and walked among us. We remember that he took his place with the least, the last, and the lost. We remember that he made himself a criminal, an ethnic minority, a person in poverty, a person under political domination. We remember that he was despised and rejected by men, and object of scorn and ridicule.
We look forward to a day when he will throw a banquet for his people, where he will be the host and each and every one of us will be the guest of honor. In the meantime, teach us to place ourselves where he chose to place himself--in the last place. In the place of dishonor. And so, may we find him there. And may he make a new world through us in which there are no places of dishonor and where everyone has a place at the table, a world that begins to look a little more like the marriage supper of the lamb.
Amen.
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