Glorious God as Luke’s story of Jesus unfolds in the weeks to come, help us to see our place in the ongoing ever unfolding story. Let us see through timeless lenses how the lives of those who encountered Jesus, intersect with ours. As we visualize Jesus at the shore of the Jordan River waiting to be baptized with the rest, let us stand with him in the cue, pondering the path of repentance before we, with him are washed clean. This day was Jesus’ day of discovery, when you revealed to him his purpose and called him your Son, the Beloved. We pray that you will open the clouded places of doubt, insecurity, or resistance in our own minds. Reveal to each one of us our truest and best purpose as those who have chosen to follow Jesus along the path of faith. It is in Jesus’ name that we pray. Amen.
OFFERTORY THOUGHT FOR JANUARY 10, 2010
To exist is to be real, to be alive; to subsist is to remain alive or viable; to consist is to be made up of diverse parts; to resist is to fight against someone doing something; to desist is to stop doing something, to cease, perhaps, from existing, subsisting, consisting or resisting. John the Baptist existed, subsisting on Locusts. His baptism consisted of water and repentance. He resisted King Herod’s authority and was forced to desist from baptizing and preaching the good news. Let us give thanks and persist in preaching the good news.
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