Make Us Clean

It happened that there was a man full of leprosy in one of the towns where Jesus was; and when he saw Jesus, he fell prostrate, pleaded with him, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” Jesus stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I do will it.  Be made clean.” And the leprosy left him immediately. 

Then he ordered him not to tell anyone, but “Go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.” The report about him spread all the more, and great crowds assembled to listen to him and to be cured of their ailments, but he would withdraw to deserted places to pray. (Luke 5:12-16)

Lord, if you wish, make us clean, meaning make us truthful and have us ignore the liars and deceitful ones.  This is a reasonable and desired request one day after January 6 and the mayhem and havoc caused by anti-democratic forces in the United States’ Capitol last year. A great crowd assembled to listen to instigators of that attempted coup and their trampling of our nation’s Constitution.

Lord, we ask you to cure us of their and our ailments as we venture into 2022.  Please stretch out your hand and touch us.  Heal us; make us clean.

Deacon David Pierce