Sunday, January 14, 2018

A Prayer

Father,

When we stop to consider our lives, we realize that even in the midst of difficulties and issues, You have been good to us. There are so many ways in which You have blessed us. We all have food enough to eat, shelter that keeps us warm and dry, bodies that are working well enough so that we can be here this morning. There are many good things that we enjoy because of You.

But the best thing that we enjoy, the greatest act of Your goodness is that we get to have You. You are the great and the fearsome God. You inhabit eternity. You fully exist in every place at the same time. You have but to speak and Your creation obeys. You are the God who is high and lifted up. But though You are this great and amazing God who is so very different from us, You are still our Father who is so near.

We are so grateful Father that we get to enjoy You. Your presence is so comforting. Whatever is going on with us, we get to share it with You. So, when something really good happens, You are there to rejoice with us. And when life gets hard, You are there to hear us as we cry out, to encourage us.

And what a comfort to have You near when we don’t know what to do. You share Your wisdom with us so that the confusing becomes clearer.

You really are a good Father.

And that makes it all the worse when we live as if You weren’t our Father, when we live as if we were orphans, facing life alone. Forgive us this foolishness. And teach us that we are not alone. We are never alone. We always have You.

Father, we don’t yet experience what Adam and Eve enjoyed, quiet walks in the cool of the day through the Garden, chatting about this and that. But the day will come when we will enjoy exactly that, and more. For that, and all the rest, we give You thanks through Jesus who makes all of this possible. Amen.

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