Father,

it’s so easy in this life to let other things take Your place in or thinking. Wealth, friendships, freedom, our own pride—these and many other things we tend to prioritize above You. Free us from these, we pray, and free the many people who have turned the world itself into their god—“atheist” secularists for whom the material world is the ultimate reality, pantheist spiritualists for whom the cosmos is god, primitive animists who substitute many gods for you.

Those attitudes are so common in the environmental movement, Lord, and they all evidence a hunger for You Yourself, but a hunger they try to satisfy with the wrong things. Please reveal Yourself to them as the Maker and Sustainer of all things, whose love and wisdom are displayed in all You’ve made, and bring them to the knowledge of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, whom with You we glorify together as the Triune God.

In Jesus’ name, amen.