My Vision of Divine Creator-Lent 2, 2020

Prayer Focus: God as Divine Creator

Lord God, our Divine Creator, we praise You and thank You for the beauty of this creation that You have made… that You designed well before it ever came to be. We praise You that out of nothing ex nihilo that You created the stars in the sky, the sun, the moon, the earth, the plants, the animals, the fish, and the birds. We praise You that every part of the creation which You have made was very good in the beginning! We praise You for the way in which You created this world and we ask, Lord, that we would be mindful always that we are created beings. That it’s our responsibility to care for this beautiful creation which You have made. That it is our pleasure to receive what the land yields and to shepherd over this world which You have made. We’re sorry, Father, for the many ways that we have not respected the land. We’re sorry, Lord, for failing to care for this creation including the animals and other people. We are seeing anew, Lord, that there is an Image of Yours in every human being– there’s not a man, a woman, a child, or a fetus who has not been endowed with Your Image. This fact is irrespective of our race, gender, upbringing, or other demographic. It is irrespective the level of sin that we have because Your Image is still there, however broken in humanity it may be on account of our sin. We know that it wasn’t always this way in the beginning. There was a time in which humanity had Your perfect Image. This world, too, was absolutely perfect before we disrespected Your boundaries, violated Your commands, transgressed against Your kindness, love, and mercy. We thank You Lord for Your forgiveness—a forgiveness that was bought on the Cross by Jesus Christ Your Son. We thank You Lord that Your mercies are new every morning and You give us opportunities to live as we ought. Grant that we would live as self-aware created beings worshipping You, our Creator, who alone deserves to be worshiped. We praise You and thank You for this vision of You as our Divine Creator. Keep us humble and help us bring glory to You for all the good You have done to us. Amen.

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Lent 2013 looked at The Letter to the Romans: Paul’s Masterpiece to reclaim foundations of our Christian heritage and began February 13, 2013.
A very special and ever popular offering was Lent 2014’s Be Still and Know that I AM God which can be obtained through the archives beginning in March 2014.
Lent 2015 began on February 18, 2015 with a series entitled With Christ in the Upper Room: Final Preparations. We explored what is often called “The Upper Room Discourse” found in John chapters 13-17.
ReKindle, the Lent 2016 series, began on February 10, 2016 and encouraged us to rekindle our spiritual lives.
Light: There’s Nothing Like It was the 2017 Lent series and explored this metaphor often used to portray Christ. It is archived beginning March 1, 2017.
Lent 2018, we explored the questions of Pi and Chi (the Greek letter beginning the word Christos, which means Christ, Messiah, the Anointed One). We asked and answered the questions “Why?” from the movie Life of Pi as we discovered the uniqueness of Jesus Christ in a world of many faiths.
Lent 2019 gave us a deeper window into Easter “More to the Easter Story” since we miss so much when we rely only on a superficial understanding of the work of Christ. These devotionals are archived beginning March 6, 2019.