A Prayer
written at Monday, July 2, 2012
We may have education, but not compassion. We
may have forms of praying, but not fruitful adoration and intercession. We may
have oratory, but be lacking in unction. We may thrill Your people, but not
transform them. We may expand their minds, but display too little wisdom and
understanding. We may amuse many, but find few who are solid regenerated by
Your blessed Holy Spirit.
So we ask You for Your blessing, for the power
of the Spirit, that we may know You better and grow in our grasp of Your
incalculable love for us. Bless us, Lord God, not with ease or endless triumph,
but with faithfulness. Bless us with the right number of tears, and with minds
and hearts that hunger both to know and to do Your Word. Bless us with a
profound hunger and thirst for righteousness, a zeal for truth, a love of
people.
Bless us with the perspective that weighs all
things from the vantage point of eternity. Bless us with a transparent love of
holiness. Grant to us strength in weakness, joy in sorrow, calmness in
conflict, patience when opposed or attacked, trustworthiness under temptation,
love when we are hated, firmness and far-sightedness when the climate
prefers faddishness and drift.
D. A. Carson.
A Prayer
written at Monday, July 2, 2012
We may have education, but not compassion. We
may have forms of praying, but not fruitful adoration and intercession. We may
have oratory, but be lacking in unction. We may thrill Your people, but not
transform them. We may expand their minds, but display too little wisdom and
understanding. We may amuse many, but find few who are solid regenerated by
Your blessed Holy Spirit.
So we ask You for Your blessing, for the power
of the Spirit, that we may know You better and grow in our grasp of Your
incalculable love for us. Bless us, Lord God, not with ease or endless triumph,
but with faithfulness. Bless us with the right number of tears, and with minds
and hearts that hunger both to know and to do Your Word. Bless us with a
profound hunger and thirst for righteousness, a zeal for truth, a love of
people.
Bless us with the perspective that weighs all
things from the vantage point of eternity. Bless us with a transparent love of
holiness. Grant to us strength in weakness, joy in sorrow, calmness in
conflict, patience when opposed or attacked, trustworthiness under temptation,
love when we are hated, firmness and far-sightedness when the climate
prefers faddishness and drift.
D. A. Carson.
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Knowing
What matters supremely, therefore, is not
in the last analysis, the fact that I know God,
but the larger fact which underlies it --
the fact that He knows me.
J. I. Packer
