Risen
Jesus
We
come to you today
We who
know of your great love.
We
have sat at your feet and known we are precious.
We
have reached out and touched your cloak and felt your healing come to us
We
have known the freedom of handing our heavy things over to you.
And
we have followed you to Jerusalem and seen the way you let yourself be weak,
gave up your power and endured the suffering of death, so that we could really
live.
Jesus,
our light, our hope, our joy
Jesus,
our dignity, our future, our consolation
Jesus
our teacher, our brother, our Saviour
We
fall to our knees and praise you… pause …
Yet
we confess that sometimes
We
hold this pearl of great price
Your
love for us, who you are and what you’ve done
Close
to our chests
We
bury it deep in our pockets,
Keep
it somewhere safe where it won’t get us in trouble.
And
sometimes we get so used to having this pearl of great price around we take it
for granted and lose sight of the treasure that it is.
Forgive
us, Lord Jesus.
Your
great love so lavishly and abundantly given
Is
not something to be hidden away.
Teach
us how to share it, to be alight with it, to be overflowing with it.
Come
live in us and be known in us today and always.
In
your precious name we pray, Amen.
