I Dare You!
You read that right. I dare you to pray this prayer with me!
May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, hard hearts, half-truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live from deep within your heart where God’s Spirit dwells.
May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and turn their pain into joy.
And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world and in your neighborhood, so that you will courageously try what you don’t think you can do, but in Jesus Christ you’ll have the strength necessary to do.
May God bless you so that you remember we are all called to continue God’s redemptive work of love and healing in God’s place, in and through God’s name, in God’s Spirit, continually creating and breathing new life and grace into everything and everyone we touch.
That was easy to read… but I bet it was hard to pray! Take a minute to go back and pray through it.
So often, we don’t see hurt, pain, and disappointments as blessing. We so desire our lives to be easy so we can coast through it with little to no emotional nor physical commitment.
As many know, Susanne and I are in a stage of our lives that is new for us. A time of healing, recovering, and being renewed.
Susanne and I are clinging to the hope found in Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a HOPE and a FUTURE”.
Over the next few blog posts, I will be sharing how God is working in my life, and the lives of the 5 Reeders!
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One Comments to “I Dare You!”
I am sorry that things didn’t work out the way you had dreamed they would. I know full well the pain of a dying dream. You and your family are in my prayers.
I have one question about your previous post though. You said that your priorities should be Jesus, family, ministry and that to do otherwise is unbiblical. I’ve heard that a lot in the past few years, but I can’t find that biblical reference. My father is also a pastor who, in the opinion of some, put ministry ahead of family. From my perspective as his son, I think our family was better grounded spiritually and closer as a family because ministry was OUR priority as a family. We all participated with him in the vision God had given him.
I do not intend this in any way to be argumentative or to imply that you are wrong. I am just very interested in hearing another viewpoint.
God bless you richly.