Nick Chambers sings, ‘I Just Want To See’. What might you carry into your own prayer from this song?

The worry of being a burden

Eclipses this quiet belief

But I’ll throw off the cloak from my shoulders

when you call me up onto my feet

And quiet the voices that keep me

From crying out my need

Son of David,

have mercy on me

I just want to see

I just want to see

Lost on the path where you find me

This labyrinth under my feet

I walk forward but always returning

Back through some twisting of grief

Still my heart is burning within me

Just to hear you speak

Wandering stranger,

will you stay with me?

I just want to see

I just want to see

Open my eyes

Open my eyes

I just want to see

I just want to see

Today’s reading is from Saint Paul’s Letter to the Romans.

Romans 6:12-18

Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

In this passage, Paul is trying to get the Roman Christians to understand how to live the life they are called to live as a result of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. How might they have understood and responded as Paul tells them: “do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies”? What is your response, too?

Paul says that we have “been brought from death to life”. What impact does this truth have on your day-to-day living?

Now listen once more as the passage is read for you again. What most strikes you about it this time?

Romans 6:12-18

Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

“You are not under law but under grace”. How do you live your life based on this truth? Spend some time speaking to God about this in these final moments...

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be

World without end

Amen