Lenten Prayer - Day 20 - Fourth Thursday (March 11, 2021)
Gospel Reading: Luke 12:22-31
Gospel Reading: Luke 12:22-31
Christ Jesus, we rejoice in You! We welcome your instruction! We plead for your help!
We have been conditioned to worry. Many of the messages that we receive within our families, congregations, communities, and society at large, say, "You don't have enough!" "You are not adequately supplied!" or "You are not enough!"
We are encouraged to scramble and grasp for more. We are given goals that supposedly bring us a more complete, meaningful, and secure life. The messages and goals that pound or nag at us, day after day, typically make us more anxious. Many of us cannot sleep at night, or focus on important tasks and relationships during the day, because we are overwhelmed with worry about the things that we imagine we need.
You bring an alternative message. You utter an alternative demand: "Don't worry! Don't settle for a diminished understanding of life! You cannot enhance or lengthen your life by worry. So stop! Trust God, who values You and provides for You and acts as Loving Parent toward You!"
Jesus, Teacher, may your Spirit comfort us, remove our anxiety. and enable us to trust, courageously, in the One whose reign provides in abundance for those who trust. Amen.
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