Opening Prayer: Help me, O God, to surrender my life
completely to your control and command.
Give it both a plan and pattern that constantly reminds me of your
presence and consistently makes me more responsive to your will. For the sake of Jesus, your Son. Amen.
Scripture: James 1:2-4
Journal: How do trials or hard circumstances typically
affect you? How do they distract
you? What trials or difficult
circumstances are you currently experiencing?
What do you think God is trying to do in you as a result of them?
Reflection:
“Think glorious thoughts of God—and serve him with
a quiet mind!” And it is surely a fact
that the more glorious and more spacious our thoughts of Him are, the greater
the quietude and confidence with which we do our detailed work will be. Not controversial thoughts, or narrow
conventional thoughts, or dry academic thoughts, or anxious worried
thoughts. All these bring contraction
instead of expansion to our souls; and we all know that this inner sense of
contraction or expansion is an unfailing test of our spiritual state. (The
House of the Soul and Concerning the Inner Life by Evelyn Underhill)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: Father, thank you that, as difficult as some
days can be, we can always live with the assurance that somehow you are
mysteriously using these struggles to mold us into your image, for your
glory. May we always fix our eyes firmly
on you, rather than the ever-changing circumstances around us. Amen.
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