Rev. Scott's Weekly Devotional
October 18, 2007
What Do You Need?
Today, I offer you a prayer from a pastor whose writings have touched me deeply. This is from Howard Thurman in a book called
I Need Thy Sense of time
Always I have an underlying anxiety about things.
Sometimes I am in a hurry to achieve my ends.
And am completely without patience. It is hard for me to realize . . .
That some growth is slow,
That all processes are not swift. I cannot always discriminate . . .
Between what takes time to develop and what can be rushed,
Because my sense of time is dulled.
I measure things in terms of happenings.
O to understand the meaning of perspective.
That I may do all things with a profound sense of leisure
-- of time.
I Need Thy Sense of Order.
The confusion of the details of living
Is sometimes overwhelming. The little things
Keep getting in my way providing ready-made
Excuses for failure to do and be.
What I know I ought to do and be.
Much time is spent on things that are not very important.
While significant things are put into an insignificant place.
In my scheme of order. I must unscramble my affairs.
So that my life will become order. O God, I need thy sense of order.
I Need Thy Sense of the Future
Teach me to know that life is ever
On the side of the future.
Keep alive in me the forward look, the high hope,
The onward surge. Let me not be frozen
Either by the past or the present.
Grant me, O patient God, thy sense of the future
Without which all life would sicken and die.
In these days of hectic rushing, may we find time to pause and remember that we belong to one who loves us and calls us. May you experience God’s peace and love in your life today.
In the hope Jesus offers us,
Rev. Scott Carlson