trust, day 6

Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.

Opening Prayer:
O Christ Jesus, when all is darkness and we feel our weakness and helplessness, give us the sense of your presence, your love, and your strength.  Help us to have perfect trust in your protecting love and strengthening power, so that nothing may frighten or worry us, for, living close to you, we shall see your hand, your purpose, your will through all things.

 

                                                                                   ~St. Ignatius 

Psalm for the Week: Psalm 31

Scripture for the Day: Luke 22:31-38

Reading for Reflection:

The beginning of a path is always the most important.  Miss the entrance, and you never walk the path.  Perhaps the narrow gate that opens onto the route toward God, the gate that many Christians think they have walked through but never have, can be found in an idea so simple that we often miss its force:

You know you’re finding God when you believe that God is good no matter what happens.

 

     We will know that we have found God when nothing can shake our confidence in his unchanging goodness. (Finding God by Larry Crabb)

Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself

Song for the Week: Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus

Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to take Him at His word;
Just to rest upon His promise,
Just to know “Thus saith the Lord!”
 
Chorus:
Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more!
 
O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to trust His cleansing blood;
Just in simple faith to plunge me
’Neath the healing, cleansing flood!
 
Yes ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just from sin and self to cease;
Just from Jesus simply taking
Life and rest, and joy and peace.
 
I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee,
Precious Jesus, Savior, friend;
And I know that Thou art with me,
Wilt be with me to the end.


Closing Prayer:
But I trust in you, O Lord, I say, “You are my God.”  My times are in your hands.  Amen. (Psalm 31:14-15)