Friend, in all your waiting, keep looking to the Lord, who is not only worth the wait but is ultimately where true satisfaction is found while you wait!

Lord, help us. Because You are not partial, we desire not to be either—yet we know we fall short. More often than we’d like, we don’t inquire of You. We twist Your Word, read into it what we want, take some wisdom while leaving other parts behind, treat some commands as optional, and reject others altogether. Purify us, Lord, so that at every turn we would seek You first. Help us to test everything using Your measure—Your scale. Teach us to be holy as You are holy, compassionate as You are compassionate, righteous as You are righteous, gracious as You are gracious, and loving as You define love. May we not be a people who pick and choose which parts of You we want while leaving behind the parts we don’t. You are all of these things, and more, perfectly. And while we will not be perfect on this side of eternity, we do desire renewed minds and transformed thinking that shape how we love You—and therefore how we love our neighbor. All of them. Not just the ones we deem worthy at this time. Help us to call what is wicked, wicked, and in the same breath, to call righteous what is righteous. Help us to seek justice—Your justice—while remembering that vengeance belongs to You alone, never taking it into our own hands. Help us not to give answers until we have examined and truly heard what is true—not just one side of it or parts of it. Help us, those who desire to teach one another, to be wise in Your eyes, with the wisdom that comes from above. May this wisdom impact not only what we say, but how we live. And lastly, help us to entrust ourselves to You, the Overseer of our souls, and to follow the example of Christ through the power of the Spirit.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.