Reawaken our First Love, Lord. Remind Us that You are the Headwaters Of our Lives.

Father God
Lord Jesus
Holy Spirit

We present ourselves before You again this Sunday.
We come to remember and be refreshed.
To recall moments when You spoke clearly.
Thinking of times You’ve rescued us.

Remembering how You’ve directed 
Our thoughts and our steps
Along with those clarifying moments when we 
Have known your compassionate conviction.

We want to be saturated with faith, hope, and love.
And we need You to expose our idols.
We agree our hearts are desperately wicked.
Idolatry is our natural state.
We put too much trust in worldly systems
For significance and identity.

We find identity and meaning in our intelligence,
In relationships, in food and drink,
And in holding the best views on
How life should be lived.

We don’t realize our idolatry until
The idol falls and we flail for security.
Then we grasp, again, that the core
Of our value is our status 
As your delightful children.

Reawaken our first love, Lord.
Remind us that You are the headwaters
Of our lives.

We will never give up receiving from You.
There’s always more—a daily immersion.
And the best is yet to be—purity of heart,
Washed clean, forever. 
Amen. 

Waterfall photo by Štefan Štefančík on Unsplash

Academic photo by RUT MIIT on Unsplash

Boy on swing photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Beach photo by Elisabeth Arnold on Unsplash