There is hope in Christ Jesus

God, hear my prayer.
God, please hear their cries!  I hear their need for love. I hear their need for acceptance.  They have unveiled their brokenness for all to see.  They have given up on all this world has to offer.  Their desperation is clear in their words.  They don’t know to what or whom to look.  Continually, I see them try to fill themselves with temporary pleasures.  They’ve noticed these things’ brevity and have found it unnerving, knowing well that these fillers were all for naught.  Please, God, meet them in their despair!  Shock the afflicted with your love.  Make your presence a reality in their lives.  Show them that all hope is not lost.  Reveal to them that there is One who can make them whole, namely Jesus, through whom all sin was borne and through whom there is life.  Amen.