Daily Worship

FOCUS MY EYES

Martin Fair April 09, 2016 0 0

ACTS 1:9-10

9 After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight.

10 They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. 11 “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Lord, the scripture tells us that, after Jesus had been taken from them, the disciples stood with their 'eyes fixed on the sky.'

We pray that, by your Spirit, we might have our eyes fixed on Jesus.

And yet we are all too aware that this life is full of distractions - so many moments and happenings which have the result of taking our attention away from Jesus.

Help us, we pray to:
Focus my eyes on you, O Lord,
Focus my eyes on you;
Focus my eyes on you, O Lord,
Focus my eyes on you.*

As we focus our eyes on you, let us see more clearly what you are doing in our world.
As we focus our eyes on you, let us hear more clearly what you are saying to us.
As we focus our eyes on you, let us see more clearly how you would have us serve you in the world.
As we focus our eyes on you, let us hear more clearly your call upon our lives.

Keep us Lord from staring into the void - from looking for you in all of the wrong places. Might we come to see you where you really are and so find you, not least kneeling at our feet.

In Jesus' name, we pray, Amen.