Though fully God, Jesus Messiah, You also became fully human (John 1:14; Col 2:9).
Tempted in every way like us, You sympathize with us, yet without sin You help and deliver us (Heb 4:15). Jesus, You came to reveal the Father and what it means to be gloriously human. You showed us the image of God for which we were created. O’ lovely and victorious Son of Man who became the suffering servant (Is 53 and Phil 3) taking up your cross, laying down your life, rising from the dead, ascending to the Father and returning King and Lord. Incarnate in us. You’ve begun Re-Genesis, New Order, and Re-creation. One day heaven and earth will become one, nations healed, every tear wiped away, death and sickness and sin removed. O’ think in us beginning restoration even in our human weakness, so that we might bring hope in this dark world. O’ glorious grace incarnated in this human race.
But we are neither fully God nor gloriously human. The flesh is weak though the Spirit in us is willing. But what if?
What if the Spirit revealed in us what Jesus is thinking (remember He is fully divine and fully man)? He knows our weak frame and that from dust we were made. He already revealed to us the perfect image of Father to which we will be restored in our resurrected bodies. But we need a word now, a revelation releasing Life in us-come and think in our minds.
Living Word of God be incarnate in us.
Loving God incarnate us Your body into our community.
The leper thought Mother Teresa was Jesus, but she saw Jesus in him. Jesus open our hearts and eyes to see you in our neighbor so they may see You in us. Incarnation live and think in us. Help us think and live not only in You but involved with them.
Forgive our leaders and nation our sins. Expose and remove in government and culture and church what hinders heaven from coming on earth. Make us more fully divine and gloriously human. Heal our land, especially our neighborhood, block by block, from innocent blood, occult, broken covenants and immorality, and despair, fear and hate.
Strengthen our hands to serve at home and church and Kaiser School. Increase food for the needy through sharing. Enlarge our hearts through prayer. Grow us up through love at work. And put your lovely and holy thoughts in us. PD
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