“Oh God of the Open Ear” - a puritan prayer - w/some random thoughts
Below is a beautiful and challenging prayer. Full surrender is so uncomfortable until your soul sees that He is the only trustworthy resting place and that hope in the world’s promises end in death; physical, emotional, spiritual, temporal, and eternal. He is teaching me to hope in deeper things.
I have recognized in myself, as of late, intentional daily acknowledgement of God’s holiness, glory, and grace, and yet felt only in isolated instances any true adoration or awe.
Worship runs deeper than conscious acknowledgement, it happens by the Spirit when I least expect it, and how sweet it is. I am learning. Lord, help me to see you, trust you, wait on you, love you, move past conscious acknowledgment and into free delight, that I might stand in awe and find the rest of worship today.
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O God of the open ear,
Teach me to live by prayer as well as by providence,
for myself, soul, body, children, family, church.Give me a heart frameable to Your will,
so I might live in prayer,
and honor You,
being kept from evil, known and unknown.Help me to see the sin that accompanies all I do,
and the good I can distill from everything.
Help me not only to desire small things
but with holy boldness to desire great things
for Your people, for myself,
that they and I might live to show Your glory.———
Thanks Josh.
