Advent 15

Father, to you who are the beginning and the end be praise forever.

Who shall ascend your holy hill, where smoke envelopes your glory, and the angels of the fullness of your wrath dwell in waiting? Even your favored Jacob has dealt treacherously, cheating and being cheated. Your people fight among one another over food, but you offer us everlasting inheritance in Christ.

We long to dwell with you on the other side of your wrath. Oh, to be righteous and holy before you, to dwell with you without fear, to be yours with no one, nothing, no sin to separate us again. You yet have wrath to spend, but with Christ as our shield, we look forward to its outpouring. Take our sin from us and lead us to your long awaited love.