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“Watch and pray continually against pride.”
As the Bible begins, we are confronted immediately by the sin of pride. Adam and Eve and the builders of Babel - just like us - wanted to be in control.
We seek autonomy rather than your authority. The pursuit of personal power and selfish purposes - that’s our agenda. (It seems appropriate that vanity and humanity rhyme.)
Father, I turn to the 51st Psalm, to David’s prayer of contrition:
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.
Lord Christ, I pray for a clean heart - a right and willing spirit. Amen.