Father God,

Today, I pray for a restoration of society’s valuing truth. While we as a society will claim to want the truth, we do not walk in ways that reflect that claim. The digital world did not create mankind’s tendencies toward little white lies and compromises of truth, but simply amplifies our sinful nature’s methods of justifying these underminings of the truth. That sinful nature has always been present.

The less we as a society value and pursue truth, the more uncertain life becomes. We have fallen more and more into post-modernism in which we as a society question the existence of an absolute truth since everyone has their own truth. Even when we deny this post-modern philosophy, we are left in so many areas with profound uncertainty.

From there trust is degraded as we can’t trust our government or its leaders. We can’t trust those who lead our industries. We can’t trust those we pass in our communities. We lose trust in leaders of our churches when many we admired are discovered to have violated what they claimed to believe. We are even losing trust in one another in families as distrust grows there as well.

Our unwillingness to acknowledge our collective dismissal of how we are called to treasure truth is leading to a world in which trust and peace are harder to find and keep. Restore us so that we would first hold ourselves accountable to a higher standard and then require that of others around us. Forgive me where in any way I have not honored truth and pursued it Turn our eyes upon our Savior that we might walk in truth by the power of the Spirit placed within us.

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.