Dear Father. Thank you for Jesus.
Thank you for His mission on the earth to get people to turn to you and to the coming Kingdom. Thank you for His life, His ministry, His words, His death, His resurrection, His final instructions on earth, His ascension, His promised return and the fact that those who are found faithful will be with Him for eternity.
Thank you for these truths. I’m especially grateful for these truths when all around me are constructs of fabrications based on illusory values and deceptive myths from self-rule to tribalistic rites and rituals. Some are so basic and some are so sophisticated that it’s not difficult to get wrapped up in them and see them as the truth.
That’s why I’m grateful for examples in your word of your people in exile who may have been in the system but submitted to the rule you established. Thanks for the likes of your servant Peter who was clear that we should see ourselves as strangers and pilgrims in this world.
I do not want to live out a hermit lifestyle that excludes myself from interacting with the world around me. I want to follow the example of your Son who showed compassion for those in the web of slavery and offered to people the opportunity to be free if they would believe in Him.
Thank you for setting me free and I want to live in the freedom you give, true freedom, real freedom. Not based on myths and sales gimmicks, freedom from the source of all true and real freedom.
Once more, then Father, my desire is to operate in the Spirit, walk in the Spirit and talk in the Spirit so I will not fulfil the desires of the flesh. So by the power of your Spirit I look to have a sound mind, pure heart and clean hands. Unspotted from the world. Not conformed to the world. Not dictated by the patterns of the culture. Not enslaved by the trends of society. Not bound by conventions and routines embedded in the wisdom of the world rooted in the evil one.
Set us apart for you, so that even as we engage in the world, the world will know that we don’t belong to it and to them. Help me. Help us. Help us as individuals. Help us as couples. Help us a families. Help us as expressions of your Body in the variety of locations in which we find ourselves. Help us so that our banner will continue to be of your love and the desire that your Kingdom comes and your will is done on earth as it is in heaven. For your honour and for your glory, Lord.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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