Many of us will try to eliminate a bad habit or sin during Lent. Maybe it’s being lazy. Maybe it’s eating too much. While that’s all well and good, if we don’t actively work build a good habit in its place, studies show we will likely fall back into the bad habit.
Saint Peter, one of the twelve disciples, and designated by Jesus Christ as first pope of the Church, said this,
“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Today, let’s pray to make this our best Lent ever. Let’s pray that God would help us root out the sin or vice that plagues us, and plant a virtue to grow and flower in its place.
Lord, take away my pride and replace it with humility
Take away my envy and replace it with kindness.
Take away my anger and replace it with forgiveness.
Take away my sloth and replace it with zeal.
Take away my lust and replace it with purity.
Take away my gluttony and replace it with self-control,
Take away my greed and replace it with generosity.
And loving Father, take away my doubt, fear, and hatred and fill it with faith, hope and love. Amen.
This is Mike Kelly with Pray For 2. Listen anytime at prayfor2.com, or on the Redeemer Radio app.