Opening Prayer: Help me never, O God, to be afraid to sacrifice breadth in order to get depth. You want so much more for me than a life that’s a mile wide and an inch deep.
Scripture: Psalm 42:7
Journal: How is God inviting you into a deeper life with him? What does it look like? Will you accept his invitation?
Reflection: “Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me.” (Ps. 42:7)
The depths of God is
constantly calling out to the depths of man, inviting him deeper into the
beauty and the mystery of who He is. God
does not want us to settle for less of a life than the one he created us for,
but, unfortunately, oftentimes we do. We
grow content and comfortable with the safe and familiar, and are afraid of what
it might mean, or what it might take, for us to enter into the life and the
depth and the freedom God offers us.
Thus, there comes, for each
of us, a moment of decision, when we must decide whether we will follow the
voice of the One calling us deeper and narrower, or settle for a life that’s a
mile wide and an inch deep. There is
definitely a process involved that leads us to this moment, but there always
comes a moment when a decision must be made.
A moment when we must choose to move, to cross the bridge to the other
side, to take his hand as he leads us toward a new and unknown land, or to stay
where we are. A moment when we must
choose between the comfortable and the familiar or a new life and a new
birth. It’s one or the other, we can’t
have both. So, what will it be?
Prayer
Closing Prayer: O God, thank you that your depths is constantly calling out to my depths, inviting me further into the beauty and the mystery of who you are. Give me the strength and the grace and the courage to say yes to that call.
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