Prayer based on Leviticus 11

Great God and King, You set apart Your people Israel from all of the other nations of the earth. You governed even the things that they consumed. They were not allowed to eat according to their own private judgment. You told them what was to be detestable among them. You gave them a powerful experience of being different from the world. This ceremonial law had its purpose for the time of preparation, reminding your people that we are to be distinct from the world, not because of what goes into our bodies, but because of what comes out of us. When the time of the Old Covenant was near fulfillment, Your Son announced to us a new freedom to eat according to conscience. We ask that You would aid us in turning away from the way of death, which is truly unclean. The things of sin that come out of us still defile us. Out of our hearts and our mouths come filthy desires and words that are an attack on the way of life that we have been given. Your Son was perfectly holy for us. May we walk in holiness with joy, observing all things that He has commanded.