PRAYING FOR GOD'S REIGN: LENTEN PRAYERS
DAY 35: MONDAY
Your kingdom come
O Christ, Suffering Servant of all, we
rejoice that You came among us, not as a conquering hero, but as agent of God’s
peaceful reign. You did not topple empires by violent revolution. You did not
force people to worship and follow You against their will. You made your way by
compassion, healing and spiritual liberation that drew many to you, but also
led to your death.
Though, most times, we cannot remember
your cross without deep regret and shame, we rejoice that in the cross You
defeated sin and death. We rejoice that You made yourself vulnerable, rejecting
hatred and violence in order to defeat them and show their bankruptcy. We rejoice
that You negated the demands for absolute allegiance made by every ruling
authority throughout the world.
We acknowledge with hope that You
established the trajectory by which the realms of this world will become the
realm of God. We await with gladness the day when our knees will bow with every
other knee, and our tongue declare with every other tongue that You are
Sovereign over all. We rejoice in You, and give glory to God through You.
Amen.
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