Lenten Prayer - Day 18 - Third Tuesday (March 9, 2021)
Gospel Reading: Luke 12:1-10
Gospel Reading: Luke 12:1-10
Jesus, thank You for your warning. Help us to discern when those whose discipline impresses us, and outstrips our own, are putting on an act in order to gain the approval of other people, particularly those with power, wealth, and religious authority. Help us not to be unduly influenced by their façade. Help us not to be led into idolatrous and self-serving practices by those who are primarily concerned with their own interests and image.
Even more urgently, we ask that You will give us discernment of our own tendency to act for the recognition and acclaim of others, instead of giving all that we have and are in order to love and glorify You and love and enrich the lives of our many and diverse neighbors.
Align our perspective and behavior with your values. Banish our fear of those who might do us harm if we follow You in courageous and durable fidelity.
We rejoice that God places significant value on our lives. We rejoice that God demonstrated that through your compassionate acts of healing and liberation, your forceful proclamation of truth, and your suffering servanthood.
As we follow You, and continue to learn from You, may our lives be fully reconciled to God and fully lived for God each day. Amen.
Amen
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