Father,
Give me a single minded devotion of heart to You. Help me to put away any double-minded thinking and see life and whatever circumstances or people it brings, through Your eyes of love, mercy and grace. Help me to trust You and You alone. You have hedged me behind and before and laid Your hand upon me. You...the Eternal God...are my refuge and underneath are Your everlasting arms. You will thrust out the enemy before me and shall say, destroy! I want Your wisdom! I seek Your counsel, Your knowledge and Your instruction! Make my crooked places straight and make it my delight to know and walk in Your ways. You know the way I take and when you have tested me, I shall come forth as gold. Blessed is every one who who fears You and walks in Your ways.
Help me to surrender my fear of loss and time passing to you...trusting each moment to You...knowing You will restore to me the years that the swarming locusts ate. Help me to live always in the present... surrendering to You and doing what you would have me do in the moment...for the moment is what You have given me...the moment is the window to eternity.
Charm is deceitful and beauty passing but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates. Let You be my one desire, Father...let my heart be united with You in Your Son. I want to be a fruitful vine in the heart of this house...give me energy to do those things that are important and especially those that have eternal consequences. May my children walk in Your truth desiring to love and serve You all of their days.
Help me to walk by faith...to be like that cloud of witness from Hebrews 11. May I esteem the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of this world....looking always to the reward...to that which is eternal in the heavens. By faith help me to see the invisible, to knock down the walls of fear that at times envelop me. Make me valiant in battle, Father, and out of weakness, make me strong in You. AND most especially, Father...bring those I love that do not know You, to life in You.
Therefore I do not and will not lose heart. Even though my outward man is perishing, yet my inward man is being renewed day by day. For my light affliction is but for a moment and is working for me a far more exceeding weight of glory.
On thee each moment I depend. If thou withdraw, I die. O may I ne'er that God offend who is forever nigh. --Isaac Watts
May I pause today long enough to marvel at the glory of my ever present God.
