Prayer for July 31-August 6, 2016
Sermon Text: Luke 12:13-21
That
we will not allow greed to isolate us from You and our neighbors
Jesus, though You did not come to judge, our thoughts and actions stand continuously
under the judgment of your teaching and action that call us to repentance and
change.
When we carefully examine our lives, we see that greed is masked in many
ways. We may call it a desire for fairness, or practical wisdom, or good common
sense, but we are easily deceived, by our own anxiety, when it comes to the
accrual, management and significance of money and other forms of wealth.
Most of us have more than enough, but we also have more than enough
rationalizations about why what we have is not enough.
Forgive us! Change us!
Prevent us from allowing our
resources to isolate us from You and from our neighbors. Free us from our
bondage to the idol of wealth. Enable us to see your desire for us when we
think about our varied resources. Enable us to see our neighbors in their need
and respond with glad generosity.
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