Prayer based on Ezekiel 5

O Father, how can we dwell in Your presence? You demand righteousness, and there is much testimony that confirms that You are uncompromising concerning Your holy Law. Your people of old rejected Your statutes. They did not even act as well as the nations all around them who did not know You. The depth of the sin of Your people was obvious, and You withdrew from them. So many died. Your anger came upon them. Are we any better in Your church? Do we imagine that You now have no call to us, no claim upon our lives? Thank You for the cross and resurrection of Your Son, which is our hope. May we not forget the life we have been called to live.