When Things Change For Us…
Holy Father, help us to believe in the Son you love and who simply by being Himself is the Judge of the satanic world. We can’t deny that we believe in Him but there are times when we look inward and around and we know with a frightening certainty that we desperately need you to help us in our unbelief and in our poor grasp of who you are.
Now and then and for a while we realize how difficult faith in Him is for those whose lives are one long unchanging experience of rejection or ill health or economic oppression or humiliation or loneliness—they hear His name spoken and sung but they know only hurt and loss and a daily trudge toward old age, feebleness and the grave, while the rich and powerful and their happy supporters, the ruthlessly ambitious who seek to make a name for themselves and the liars that manipulate the truth and control the flow of information are ‘blessed’.
In truth, at times we wonder how anyone can be saved. In our sinfulness we have helped build a world that has become our master, it frightens us and it is too strong for us. We find our faith is fervent within the walls of a place of public worship but find it faltering when intimidated by daily life that confuses and hurts us so that we put our trust in power and shrewdness and half-truths. We remember sometimes that you will gain your eternal loving purpose even if we do not help you but in our hearts there is a longing that never leaves—we do not wish you to do it without us.
So, leave us not, continue your patient work with us and trust in us and equip us better for your service. Though we deserve it not, keep us ever near to your heart that ours might find its rhythm in yours. Liberate us from the recurring conviction that we can fix this world if we just try harder. Rescue us also from the notion that because we cannot do everything that it is all right with you that we do nothing but wring our hands and whimper. Give us power by an energizing trust in you that we may live among the fearful as a Holy Nation, a Priestly Nation, assured that the end of all things Christ conquerors Death & Sin.
Thrill us from time tot time with the thought of Jesus Christ, the
Living Bread and while feeding on Him worry none that there really is no
other assurance & that all is truly in His hands. Keep your People
from making alliances with the gloomy and savage powers of the world as
we did again and again in the past and if need be rip away all the
shrewd and violent props we use and have used to keep ourselves safe and
‘alive’. Help your Church to remember its Baptism and to daily live its
message that poor tortured suffers might hear and be drawn to trust,
not in the Church but in the LORD, Jesus Christ, that they though
bone-weary and unable to expect change, the plundered poor, who only
exist, it seems, to be food for the feeding parasites and predators—that
they might despite all that look to you, the ONE GOD and be gladdened
by hope and on that day experience DELIVERANCE, FREEDOM FROM FEAR, and
know JOY, PEACE, ADVETNURE AND EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS.
This prayer FOR THE WORLD, loving Father, the WORLD!; a world where agony, anguish and despair is their only expectation and where there will be no change for them until the ONE comes—-in the Lord Jesus.]
