PRAYING FOR GOD'S REIGN: LENTEN PRAYERS
DAY 39: FRIDAY
Lead us not into temptation
Like your disciples, O Christ, we did not
understand the full implications of what we were doing when we began to follow
You. Many of us began by hoping, more than anything else, for our own forgiveness
and for eternal life. Some of us began hoping for lives of ease and even
wealth. Some of us imagined a life that was free of problems.
But as You broke the bondage of the sins
that had captured us and led us into a new life of freedom and joy, You led us
where we never expected to go: toward your cross. You told us to take up our
own cross to follow You, inviting us to suffer and even die with You. How
difficult this is for us!
Let our old selves die that we may follow
You in newness. Let your Holy Spirit work within us so that we may face
deprivation and suffering with patience and courage. Strengthen our resolve so
that
nothing will
deter us from following You, in absolute trust, to wherever You may lead us.
Amen.
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