National Repentance-Devaluing Life

Lord, we repent of devaluing life.  We have selfishly looked to our own interests and have ignored the humanity and Image-bearing of others—a treasure to be guarded for our fellow man.  We’ve turned our backs on children…those in the womb, as if their lives were throwaways because we didn’t want them.  We failed to love them and protect them. In the home, we’ve considered worldly goods of greater value than our own flesh and blood, investing ourselves more in jobs for earthly possessions than in the forming of the next generation.  Sadly, the image it bears is our cold materialism.  In the world, we’ve failed to stop the trafficking of children and pretend that it doesn’t happen in our circles.  We repent of this evil, Lord.  Be merciful to us for You are a God of mercy.  Amen.

We will return to Good News Worth Sharing
after this interlude of national confession and repentance.
God laid this upon my heart for a world in desperate need of repentance.
Like the Israelites of Nehemiah’s day, we must return to God,
confess our sins both individual and community,
and be willing to fall upon His mercy because He is a merciful God.