Day 35 – Monday
1 Chronicles
29:1-20
God of glory, we worship You and give You
the praise that You alone deserve. We turn to You in trust because we know that
You are sovereign within your creation. We know that You are the One who
provides wealth and honor. And we acknowledge that You have created an
abundance that is sufficient to supply the needs of every person and enable
each of us to live blessed lives of fruitfulness and joy.
Many of us live with abundance that would
astonish most of the people who have lived on this planet. But we forget that
it comes from You, and we imagine that we have earned and deserve it and that
it is ours to do with as we please. Forgive us! Forgive us for thinking that we
are autonomous self-made people. Forgive us for using our wealth in ostentatious
ways and for our anxious hoarding that robs others of their basic needs.
Forgive us for forgetting that we are stewards. Forgive us for failing to share
with gladness.
Transform our anxiety and greed! Enable us
to share generously as You have created generously. Enable us to invest
abundantly, even at great personal cost, in your reign of justice, generosity
and peace. Enable us to act in ways that bring blessing to all of your
people—our neighbors. Amen.
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