Opening Prayer: Lord Jesus, help us to see our lives today as
you see them. Help us to see what you
celebrate and help us to see what breaks your heart. Give us the courage and the strength to come
face-to-face with the whole truth. And
help us to turn away from our sin and turn towards you. Have mercy on us. Amen.
Scripture: Mark 1:1-8
Journal: How does John the Baptist’s
message speak to you today? What nerve
does it strike? Where in your life are
you in need of repentance?
Reflection:
Repentance, then, meant reorienting one’s life
around this reality. It meant repenting
of the old ways of obstruction and joining in the great paving of the path, in
demolishing of every man-made impediment between God and God’s people, and in
the celebrating of God’s wild, uninhibited presence filling every corner of the
earth. It meant getting baptized in
rivers and getting out of God’s way. (Searching for Sunday by Rachel
Held Evans)
Prayers
Closing Prayer: Lord Jesus, thank you that Mark begins his
gospel with a call to repentance.
Therefore, we cannot avoid or deny how significant it is in the life of
faith. Give us a clear view today, Lord
Jesus, of what repentance needs to look like in our lives. In your name and for your glory we pray. Amen.
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