Phil. 3; Hebrews 6; Hebrews 2; 2 Cor. 1

Father, I worship you by your very spirit, and I glory in Christ Jesus as my Savior and Lord. I put no confidence in the flesh. I put my confidence in the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus as my Lord.

Though he is your son, father, he learned obedience through what he suffered. He is divine, but he took on flesh and joined us in the flesh, so that by your grace, father, my Lord would taste death and join me in that fellowship.

But now, by the resurrection of my Lord, I have joined him in the power of his resurrection and in the fellowship of his suffering.

Father, you comfort me, through Christ’s life and presence in me, in all my afflictions and in the pressures of this life in the flesh. Now I am able to comfort those in afflictions with the comfort that I have received from you. I share abundantly in Christ’s suffering, and through Christ, I share abundantly in comfort too.