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From SGWorship and Church At Our House:

Every week in church we have a prayer time and people pray for whatever is on their hearts and I'll sit there listening and my mind will start to wander and all of a sudden, somebody will pray something that just shakes me. Takes my breath away. 8 or 9 or 10 little words that start with, "Please, God", that are so devastating that I just think, "Nobody should ever have to ask for that." So much of it has to do with family and children and loss and grief and fear and the profound injustice that people live with. And so much to do with helplessness. And there's such a fine line between helplessness and bitterness and just giving up.

Behold: The Kingdom of God.

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Registered Commenter[rhymes with kerouac] | Comments3 Comments

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Helpless dependence sort of seems the theme of my life. Somehow I keep making it, clinging to God. But I'm not always sure how. This sentence is so true, and I repeat it with a bit of a sigh: "There's such a fine line between helplessness and bitterness and just giving up. "


Sometimes I'm not even sure where the line is between trusting God and really being able to rest in Him and when what looks like resting/trusting is really giving up and resigning myself to whatever will happen anyway. Or when it's just being too tired to do anything but trust, which doesn't seem all that much like trusting when it's just a default.
April 13, 2008 | Unregistered Commentereclexia
eclexia - I think what you're describing really is resting/trusting in God. These things always sound so neat and precise in a Sunday morning sermon, but the reality is usually exactly what you've described. We keep on keepin' on, doing the best we can with what we have, and somehow - somehow! - He always meets us there.
April 14, 2008 | Registered Commenter[rhymes with kerouac]
read it...thanks, brother.
Love to you!
April 14, 2008 | Unregistered Commenternancy

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