Cold Heart

Heavenly Father,

I confess that I do not feel the joy of my salvation. My heart feels cold, and I have done nothing to rekindle its flame. My emotions are asleep, and that seems comfortable. But I am a being of flesh, spirit, mind, and heart. I cannot deny your commands to love and rejoice and still experience your presence. So, I repent this morning of my defiance. Spark my desire for you once again. Return me to my first love of you. Let my life be characterized by passionate striving to be holy as you are holy. I want to live out the new man you have transformed me into. Put to death the will of the flesh that wars against me. Bind the devil that he may not hinder my prayers. I will both wait for you and, like the persistent widow, call on you relentlessly. Answer me quickly, loving father.

In the name of our gracious Lord and redeemer. Amen.