Our Father, we have heard these blessed words so often but our ears are so dull that we cannot really hear - "Let not your hearts be troubled." But we are troubled, often troubled about the wrong things but still troubled. If only we could really hear what our blessed Lord is saying - "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me.: What a difference that would make in us! Help us to hear Him; help us to believe. We do believe but so haltingly, so hesitatingly, so partially. Help our unbelief!
May we learn to step out in faith, believing that if God is for us, nothing can be against us. Enable us as we respond to the Gospel to get along a step further to the true nonchalance of a Christian - a calm repose in Christ. We ask this not that we might escape the hard demands of life, but that we might know how to meet the daily toils and cares of family and business; to take our share of the world's burdens; and to perform that service that we are capable of. O Lord, free us from the unnecessary burdens we bear in order that we might learn to bear the burden of another and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Come now and honor your word this hour. Make us true to your word, your word spoken through the Bible and your word spoken by the Holy Spirit to our needs right now where we live. If we say we love God and hate our brother, we know we are liars and the truth is not in us. O Lord, help us in all we do to love not only in word but also in deed and in truth.
And now may all who are in need of soul or body or mind or community know in this moment that they are included in our prayers and in your love and in our love.
We ask this prayer in the name of Him who loved us and gave himself for us. Amen
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