Opening Prayer: In Thy will, O Lord, is my peace. In Thy love is my rest. In Thy service is my joy. Thou art all my heart’s desire. Amen. (A Diary of Private Prayer by
John Baillie)
Scripture: Psalm 142:1-7
Journal: How is the Lord your refuge these days? What do you need him to be your refuge
from? How does this Psalm speak to
something in your heart or life today?
Reflection:
The story was of a poor woman who had been carried
triumphantly through a life of unusual sorrow.
She was giving the history of her life to a kind visitor on one
occasion, and at the close the visitor said, feelingly, “O Hannah, I do not see
how you could bear so much sorrow!” “I did not bear it,” was the quick reply;
“the Lord bore it for me.” “Yes,” said the visitor “that is the right way. You must take your troubles to the Lord.”
“Yes,” replied Hannah, “but we must do more than that; we must leave them
there. Most people,” she continued,
“take their burdens to Him, but they bring them away with them again, and are
just as worried and unhappy as ever. But
I take mine, and I leave them with Him, and come away and forget them. And if the worry comes back, I take it to Him
again; I do this over and over, until at last I just forget that I have any
worries, and am at perfect rest.” (The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life
by Hannah Whitall Smith)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: O God, who hast been the Refuge of my fathers
through many generations, be my Refuge today in every time and circumstance of
need. Be my Guide through all that is
dark and doubtful. Be my Strength in
time of testing. Gladden my heart with
Thy peace, through Jesus Christ my Lord.
Amen. (A Diary of Private Prayer by John Baillie)
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