Choose life so that you and your descendants may live, loving the LORD your God, obeying him, and holding fast to him. (Deut. 30:19-20)
The “law,” including its foundational Ten Words, where given not to suffocate life, and certainly not to destroy life. The words were spoken that we might know what life really is, that true and lasting life is possible, if we so choose. This week, let this prayer script (adapted from Nan Doerr & Virginia Owens) be a means of choosing the grace bestowed upon us, choosing life in the love of God and others, in the Way and ways God has given us to live.
Let us pray:
Father, the earth is Yours, for You have made it! We come adoring You!
We trust you with all our hearts, knowing you resist the proud and never forsake those who boast in your mercy.
Give us understanding that we shall keep your law, keep it with all our hearts.
Father, let us know the happiness of those who walk not in the counsel of the wicked, nor linger in the way that is off the mark, but are rooted in life with you, in Your life.
May all the people from east to west, north to south, see in us and join with us in Your Kingdom come and will done on earth as it is in heaven.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God our Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore.
Amen.