Father,
I confess,
sometimes the darkness of this world
seems all-encompassing.
The depressing news,
the bent toward meanness,
the joy in judginess
…I see it everywhere—
in my own heart and in the hearts of others.
What good news it is to remember then,
that we who are in Christ
no longer live in the “domain of darkness.”
You have transferred us and transformed us.
Now we have a rich inheritance:
“the inheritance of the saints in the light” (Colossians 1:12).
Now we are freed from the tyrant Satan
to serve you, our redeeming and forgiving King.
Now our primary language is “thanksgiving”
and our primary work is “endurance and patience and joy” (Colossians 1:11).
Now we have been “strengthened with all power,
according to his glorious might” (Colossians 1:11).
to live as citizens of the kingdom of the beloved Son.
So very gratefully we pray. Amen.
Read Colossians 1:9-14.
