God, cause us to be a people who deeply care about the depravity and destruction we see in our own time and towns. The quote from Buechner comes to mind: may our calling meet the world's great needs. Give us bigger hearts that beat to be givers not takers in this world of woe.
"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." Frederick Buechner counted up 70 times that God explains in Ezekiel that He does all that He does for one purpose: that we will know that "I Am the Lord." This third vision of Ezekiel reveals a brand new rebuilt temple, brand new hearts who love God more than being loved. God is the ultimate Greater Good not our families; not our jobs; not our ministry.
"In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me and he took me there." Ezek 42:1. From dry bones to a genuine life where He writes our story. And we know the very moment when He says His Hand is on me.
DEAR GOD, PLEASE CHANGE ME IN THESE 10,000 MOMENTS OF MY LIFE WHERE I FACE DECISIONS AND CAN GO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO SERVE YOU OR SERVE IDOLS. You have brought us from lifeless to so alive. You hovered over our darkness and turned it into light. And this very moment, may we know deeply that Your Hand is holding us tight.
PHOTO: Beautiful sunrise here in Galveston. May we all fall on our faces before the One Who holds the oceans at bay and the sunrise so grand.
"In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the fall of the city—on that very day the hand of the Lord was on me and he took me there." Ezek 42:1. From dry bones to a genuine life where He writes our story. And we know the very moment when He says His Hand is on me.
DEAR GOD, PLEASE CHANGE ME IN THESE 10,000 MOMENTS OF MY LIFE WHERE I FACE DECISIONS AND CAN GO ONE WAY OR THE OTHER TO SERVE YOU OR SERVE IDOLS. You have brought us from lifeless to so alive. You hovered over our darkness and turned it into light. And this very moment, may we know deeply that Your Hand is holding us tight.
PHOTO: Beautiful sunrise here in Galveston. May we all fall on our faces before the One Who holds the oceans at bay and the sunrise so grand.
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