Easter prayer

 

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.