Father God,

Today, I pray for mercy upon our nation. We look around us and its hard to know where to begin with repentance as sin after sin is called good while truth after truth is being called evil. We are surrounded by so many blatant sinful patterns that its hard to even to even notice the more subtle sinful patterns in which our society bathes us, patterns in which we daily swim.

As Christians we pronounce condemnation upon those blatant sins, but so often neglect how subtle sins have contributed to the patterns of society. Our silence when the patterns benefit us. Our compliance with compromises. Our watering down of the Word.

Ultimately, our nation has rejected You, Oh Lord, and Your ways while we, Your own children, have also slowly and comfortable slipped down the same slippery slope away from the ways of our God. Rather than allowing us to argue over who has sinned the most versus the least, drive us to our knees and cause us to look only to our own guilt that we might turn from it in all its forms.

Forgive us and show us how to walk in Your ways in all of life that we might be the good and faithful servants of the Living God!

In Christ’s Name,

Amen.