INVITING GOD TO INTRUDE

INVITING GOD TO INTRUDE

Sunday, January 03, 2016

Psalm 139:17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

  What guidance do we seek when we read, study, meditate upon God’s Word? Survival in this troubled world, relief, peace, serenity, or guidance on how to stay on top of life, what it takes to be happy? Maybe even going so far as asking God how we as individual, family, community, and nation can please, honor, and glorify Him?

  Reading history of Sir Francis Drake* I then found an intriguing prayer that he had written and used. (In some Christian groups prayers were and still are written and prayed more than once.)

Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves,

When our dreams have come true

Because we have dreamed too little,

When we arrived safely

Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when

With the abundance of things we possess

We have lost our thirst

For the waters of life;

Having fallen in love with life,

We have ceased to dream of eternity

And in our efforts to build a new earth,

We have allowed our vision

Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,

To venture on wider seas

Where storms will show your mastery;

Where losing sight of land,

We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back

The horizons of our hopes;

And to push into the future

In strength, courage, hope, and love.

  How often do we as did Drake invite God to intrude, to direct us from the safe cove that we covet? How precious are His thoughts to us?  EBB4

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Francis_Drake