Prayer for March 9-15, 2014
Sermon Text: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
God our Creator, you have created a world
of stunning beauty and complexity. We
rejoice in the mystery of your creativity which exceeds even our best
explanations! We rejoice in our
participation in the wonder of your creation!
We recognize that much of the beauty we
see is related to margins and limits: earth and atmosphere, land and water,
skin and textured surface. We thank you
for defined boundaries and limits that help us make a way in the world.
As your creatures, you have given us great
freedom in the context of a few limits.
But we commonly reject the wisdom of limits. We want to live as though we are
limitless. We want to live as though you
make no demand upon our lives, as though you give no commands that we must
heed.
We keep imagining that we want absolute
freedom and autonomy even when lives lived from that impulse often devolve into
chaos.
Help us to hear your word for us in the midst
of our lives. Help us trust you in the
midst of challenge and confusion. Help
us act with boldness and creativity even as we do so in obedience and fidelity. Help us to abandon the illusion that we are
gods. Amen.
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