Prayer & Praise
We would as soon you were stable and reliable.
We would as soon you were predictable and always the same toward us.
We would like to take the hammer of doctrine and take the nails of piety and nail your feet to the floor and have you stay in one place.
And then we find you moving, always surprising us, always coming at us from new directions.
Always planting us and uprooting us and tearing all things down and making all things new.
You are not the God we would have chosen had we done the choosing, but we are your people and you have chosen us in freedom.
We pray for the great gift of freedom that we may be free toward you as you are in your world.
Give us that gift of freedom that we may move in new places in obedience and in gratitude.
Thank you for Jesus who embodied your freedom for all of us.
Amen.
Walter Brueggemann. Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: The Prayers of Walter Brueggemann (p. 87). Kindle Edition.
“You are not the God we would have chosen had we done the choosing, but we are your people and you have chosen us in freedom.”
Funny how we always are looking for the easy way out and that we want what makes us feel good. Thus the focus on “me” and “self” in our society. Why would i choose to follow the God who requires my complete and utter devotion. Nothing half hearted will do. I love this, And I hate it too.
Peace
Amen…..So much to ponder in that prayer.
“Always planting us and uprooting us and tearing all things down and making all things new.” This really hits home today.
Yes.
I’m going to be thinking on this prayer throughout the day as well. The planting and uprooting is what struck me this morning as well.
Praying for each as they come to mind this morning…jobs, health, wholeness. Peace.
When it seems as if everything is out of control and upside down with no end in sight we can feel as if we have been temporarily abandoned by God. And yet we know that as the heavens are above the earth so are God’s ways above our ways…
http://shekinahfellowship.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-power-of-human-mind.html
Broken tooth, now I need a crown. Sitting in the chair, a nervous big guy. I would REALLY appreciate prayer.
JTK,
Praying for peace and pain free dentistry…