Daily Worship

Open My Eyes

Rab Craig June 09, 2014 0 0

Matthew 4: 18-22

As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. ‘Come, follow me,’ Jesus said, ‘and I will send you out to fish for people.’ At once they left their nets and followed him.

Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.

I am so often the centre of my own creation,
Immune to the pain of others and the world.
At the deepest level of my heart I know there can be ugliness,
Ugliness I am afraid to release;
Ugliness I own and sometimes I even like.
It forms the horizon that contains my world.
I live with no thought of what lays beyond.

Open my eyes Father to the possibilities;
Let me see the world beyond.
So that I may have the courage to leave my boat and nets.
To move from my creation towards Yours.
 

Written by Robert Craig