Father. Sigh. I need you. I need you to transform me. Help me humble myself. Help me.
Cleanse me!
I want to be faithful. I want to humble myself & discipline my flesh. I want to discipline myself to pray. I want to walk in the power of the spirit. I want to walk in the power of the spirit.
I want to find my rest in you. I want to rest in you.
I want to meditate on your word. Meditate on it. I want it to flow out of me.
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MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. ****But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.**** And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
- Thomas Merton, "Thoughts in Solitude"
I just read this today and the part in asterisks really spoke to me. Our desires, our wants to please God are pleasing to Him. May we rely dependently on the Spirit to follow through.
Amen and ditto! Just letting you know I stalk. . err, follow you on here. Lots of wisdom and good stuff!
Love,
Jesse
Nat, thanks for that. I so agree.
And Jesse, it's cool to know you read this.
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