So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”
—1 Peter 1:14-16 (NLT)
Heavenly Father,
Since You have adopted me into Your family and declared me to be one of Your own, help me to live as Your obedient child—rejecting my old life and embracing completely the wonderful new life that You have freely offered me in Christ.
Save me from slipping back
into the attitudes and patterns of behavior from which You rescued me—those old
selfish ways that I once thought served me well, but in reality only led me closer
to my own destruction and death.
Since I now know better,
help me be obedient to Your Spirit, as You guide me to walk in the revealed
Truth of Your Word—with gratefulness, at all times and in all circumstances,
and with complete willingness and submission to You.
Continue to work in me to
make me holy as You are holy. Help me to
imitate Christ in all I think, say and do—that Your glory might shine forth
from within me and You would be seen for who You are and for all that You have
done for us.
Since You have adopted me into Your family and declared me to be one of Your own, help me to live as Your obedient child—rejecting my old life and embracing completely the wonderful new life that You have freely offered me in Christ.
In the name of Jesus,
Amen.
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