Father, our Lord Jesus came from you to enter this world; he then left this world to return to you. We believe that he alone came from you. There is none other who can reveal to us your will, your plan, your character.

He sent us out into the world, also. We do not belong to the world, but to you. He has given us your task of pulling others from the world into the Kingdom. Give us sight to discern what is worldly and what is of the Kingdom. May we never mistake the values of one for the other, or the goals of one for the other.

Help us, O Lord, to fulfill our task as did Jesus. Like him, we want to leave this world and return to you. Amen.

Pertinent passage: John 16:28; 17:14-19.