This prayer of confession originally appeared in "Searching Questions—Week 2: the Question that Arrests Us."
Prayer of Confession
Lord, in your mercy hear our prayer.
We confess that it is all too easy for us to sacrifice our convictions for convenience,
your standards for status,
your principles for promotion,
your absolutes for our ambition,
our souls for shallow and unsatisfying success.
How easily we are seduced by power, prestige, pleasure, or possessions—
seduced into violating our integrity or harming our fellowship with you.
From earth's fullest bliss we turn to you again, unfulfilled.
Forgive us our half-hearted devotion and our double-minded spirit.
In the name of him who refused to save himself we pray. Amen.
