“Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture,
and the sheep of his hand.”
(Psalm 95:6-7)

Lord, our God,

As we shelter at home, wondering when restrictions from COVID-19 will ease up, we still have every cause to come and worship You. Even if we are still at home, we remember that we ultimately come to You. We come to You with our fears and disappointments and anxieties and struggles and weariness and remember that You are still the Great God, the Good God.

In all that’s gone wrong in the world around us, as we feel deeply the brokenness of the world, perhaps even in ourselves, we look up, we look to You, and remember that You are God over all and You are still very good to us. Even if the whole world be shaken and our lives turned upside down, we still have every cause to worship You, because if we have You, if we have been saved by Jesus Christ and have the eternal life that comes through Him, we still have all we need; we lack nothing.

So we worship and bow down before You, our Maker, our Sustainer, our Hope to the very end.

We belong to You. We are your sheep. We are those who had gone astray, gone our own way, but those whom You came to find, bring home, and restore. Forgive us when we go our own way; Lord, help us to return to You daily. We look to You for all we need, and we thank You that You watch over us perfectly.

Help us to depend on You for everything.

We pray this in Jesus’ name,

Amen.