Lenten Prayers - Day 15 - Third Friday (March 5, 2021)
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21:33-44
Gospel Reading: Matthew 21:33-44
You who give sight to the blind, enable us to see ourselves clearly. Enable us to recognize the ways that we have been opportunistic and greedy with your resources. Enable us to admit that we have attempted to plunder the fruitfulness of your creation in order to possess and rule it for ourselves, without consideration of your desire.
Forgive us for being poor stewards of your resources!
Forgive us for our greediness!
Forgive us for attempting to usurp your sovereignty over all that You have made!
Forgive us for the covetousness by which we justify violence of many varieties and in many degrees of severity.
Forgive us for the intensity of resistance to Christ Jesus that has characterized our action.
Continue the transforming work that You have begun in our lives. May your Spirit move us away from greed and covetousness to wise, humble, and faithful stewardship of all of your resources. You are our Sovereign. We serve You in glad obedience. Amen.
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