Prayer of Adoration based on Romans 11:25-32

Oh Lord, merciful and gracious,

Slow to anger and

Abounding in steadfast love.

Great is your faithfulness Oh Lord.

We were a disobedient people,

Jew and Gentiles, both.

You, great God, are the Lord of the universe,

And we chose to disobey you.

We chose to despise you.

And what was your choice Oh Lord?

Your choice was to make

Our despicable disobedience

The single qualification for your

Display of mercy.

Your chose our faithlessness

To be the potters wheel

Of your faithfulness.

You chose our hard hearts,

To be the soft soil

Of your steadfast love.

And your choice

Your election is irrevocable!

Great is your faithfulness Oh Lord!

Lord of Abraham,

We Gentiles are not physical

Children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,

But your choice was to give

Jacob's children and *us*

Access to your precious

And very great promises.

We thank you for the promised

Deliverer from Jacob.

Jesus, Israel's Messiah,

Who is the propitiation

Not only for the sins of Jews,

But of for the sins of the whole world!

And so we oblivious Gentiles,

Are now grafted into your family

Because you forgave our sins,

By uniting us with the fulfilment

Of Israel's Law,

And Abraham's offspring,

And we now celebrate

A new covenant

Inaugurated by Jesus blood.

Great is thy faithfulness Oh Lord.

Great God,

You reveal your mysteries

And your wisdom

And your knowledge

And your ways

To us people

With ink and paper.

And as we gaze at your

Mysteries revealed,

We are humbled,

Because, you, the Triune God

Have made us

Pathetic people,

Participants with you

In your grand plan

To save Israel and the nations

To fill the earth with your glory.

Oh what a mystery,

What great mercy!

So may praise and glory

And wisdom and thanks,

And Honour and power and strength

Be to you our God forever

And ever.

Amen