A Corporate Prayer of Confession

Based off of Psalm 130, Colossians 3, 1 John 3, and the Catechism.

O LORD God,

If You, LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? For we have sinned against you times without number.

We have rejected and ignored you in the world that you have created. We have rebelled against you by living without regard for you, by failing to give you your due honor, and by not doing what you require of us in your holy law. Have mercy on us, Lord.

We who have practiced sin have practiced lawlessness, for sin is lawlessness.

We have trusted in created things rather than you O Lord, the Creator, for our hope, happiness, and security, thus committing idolatry. Have mercy on us, Lord.

O God, all these things are a direct affront to your sovereignty, holiness, and goodness, and against your righteous law, and your are righteously angry with our sins and would be completely just in destroying us in your wrath, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Lord, we are disobedient sons. Have mercy on us O LORD.

We have nothing in ourselves that could save us from this state. Thank you for providing us a Redeemer, your own Son, the Christ, who came, who lived a sinless life, who died for our sins, and who was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures. It is only by His blood that we can stand in your presence. We repent of our sins, we trust in your Son, and we claim the blood of Christ. It is in His name we pray,

Amen.