Daily Worship

There was a time

June 12, 2013 0 0

Job 42:1-4

Then Job answered the LORD.
I know, LORD, that you are all-powerful; that you can do everything you want.
You ask how I dare question your wisdom when I am so very ignorant.
I talked about things I did not understand, about marvels too great for me to know.
You told me to listen while you spoke and to try to answer your questions.
In the past I knew only what others had told me, but now I have seen you with my own eyes.

O Friend of Man
there was a time
when I believed as others have believed
there was a time
when I believed because others have believed
there was a time
when I believed what others have believed
then came a time of
arguments and jeer       
questions and rejection     
loneliness and doubt
faith produced no gain             
nor religion any comfort
I was lost and felt alone

from those deep moments
something new has come
the knowledge that
You don’t accept me for my faith
You love me because I am yours
as I ever was
even before my birth
thus, Lord, here I stand
stripped from the trimmings of my faith
empty handed
and just as I am
to be led by your Presence
to be clothed by your love
Amen

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written by Jan Steyn

St John's & Dairsie United