Sunday, August 12, 2018

Dear God,

How good it is to sit with people of faith, people who come to be fed the word of God, who desire the will of God and want to bless one another with faith.  We do not come to "feel good" but rather to be challenged, changed and transformed by your spirit.  We come together to worship you, not the idols of our folly but rather we gather to pray to you, to sing with you and to bless you, giving thanks and praise only to you.

As a church, sometimes we forget who we come to see, to hear and to love and serve.  We forget whose church it is.  We forget we are not gods and neither are those around us.  There is but one God worthy of our praise.  When we forget, we become sloppy in our faith, we rally around those we want to lift up and we talk about what we want forgetting to ask what you want for us.  We fail to be the church of Jesus.  We fail.

Redirect all
your churches,
O Lord.
Return us
to our
first love.
Forgive our
foolish ways.
Center us,
bring us
back home.
Make us yours
once again,
we pray.

Love, Andrea