Dear Heavenly Father:
You are awesome. No one typifies the sentiment of that word more than you. This makes it all the more of an honour that in your wisdom you choose to show who you are to those who humble themselves to engage with your revelation.
Then you invite us on the journey. From where we were to where you are. From our blindness to your sight. From our weakness to your strength. From our impoverishment to your generosity. From loneliness, betrayal and hurt, to a loving family that reconciles and restores.
It is a journey. It is not a destination. Just as getting to know who you are and who you reveal yourself to be through your Son, Jesus is a journey. As long as we exist in this body it will continue to be a journey where we can make no claim to have reached the destination, but we have the assurance of help on the journey.
Help in your word as we meditate on it day and night. Asking questions about it. Never assuming we know all there is, but always endeavouring to explore the riches of who you are in it. Growing in knowing you through this brilliant library covering such an expanse of history, poetry, prophecy, geography, song and much more.
Help in your family who you provide in all shapes and sizes. Brothers and sisters who know you in so many different ways that faith is enriched and strengthened because of them. Learning from their triumphs and their failings. Seeing you in action come through for them or to see them make it through because of you. Realising again and again that we only ever make progress in the journey through relationships with people – loving, caring and sharing with each other treating each one like sister and brother – that’s what it’s all about.
Help by your Spirit. It is a real mystery how you work those ways. It’s a wonder how you give your Spirit to live within and prompt us where to go on the journey. Prompt us in what to do on the journey. Prompt us to what to say on the journey. When times are low and sad, your Spirit is the joy that strengthens. When times are tough and there doesn’t seem to be any way forward, your Spirit is the light that guides and the flow that keeps things going. There truly could not be any progress made in the journey without your Holy Spirit.
This is why there is reason for hope and assurance. All because of the help you offer in the journey.
Thank you, Father.
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For Your Name’s Sake
Shalom
C. L. J. Dryden
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