God (Part 2)
O God,
Thank you for your great grace in which you make yourself known to us.
Even as we ask for humility and caution in the ways that we think about, talk about, and bear witness to you, we praise you for coming to us and being with us.
We praise you for making yourself known in creation. We see your beauty and power reflected in its beauty and power. We can learn about creation, but there is always more to learn—and so it is with you. We can approach it with humility or with arrogance, with a mind toward working with it or trying to manipulate it—the same choices we have with you. Help us to make the right choices in our approach to you.
We praise you for making yourself known in Scripture. Thank you for those who experienced the events, who remembered the events, who interpreted the events, and who wrote, edited, and preserved the ongoing interaction and conversation between you and your people. Thank you for how the Scriptures point us to Christ. Help us to let them guide us to and in our own encounters and interactions with you.
We praise you for making yourself known in your Son Jesus Christ. Thank you that he was the Word made flesh who dwelled among us, full of grace and truth. Thank you that he is the apex of your self-revelation. Thank you that in following him we come to know you. Help us to live faithfully as followers of Jesus Christ that we might grow in our knowledge of who you are and of who we are becoming.
We praise you for making yourself known in the Holy Spirit. Thank you that you are present with us and in us through your Spirit. Thank you that where the Spirit is, there the Son and Father are as well. Thank you that we can thus know you personally, intimately, and fully. Help us stay in constant communion with you even as you are, as Holy Trinity, constantly in fellowship within yourself.
Thank you for your great grace in which you make yourself known to us.
Help us to stay constantly aware of your presence.
Amen.
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