I have found that dependence and trust in God's promises is the most unnatural thing to do. Every day I have to reorient my perspective and decisions with God's Word because my natural human tendency is to simply go my own way. I know I am edging that way when anxiety and uncertainty creates waves in my soul. This prayer helps me keep the perspective that I need when I am so tempted to panic and withdraw and waste time in figuring it out for myself. This prayer is what I needed this morning as I contemplated all the details of selling this house.
Let me keep in mind that my mortal body is but the servant of my immortal soul:
Let me keep in mind how uncertain is my hold upon my bodily life:
Let me remember that here I have no continuing city,
but only a place of sojourn and a time of testing and of training:
Let me use this world as not abusing it:
Let me be in this world, but not of it:
Let me be as having nothing yet possessing all things:
Let me understand the vanity of the temporal and the glory of the eternal:
Let my world be centered not in myself but it Thee.
With this dependence and trust re-established in the eternal perspective, I return to my work today without the pressure and stress of needing to make things work. Today, I shall be in faith and trust that whatever I set my hand to do will be done in love and to honor the King. I no longer need to worry about my day.
AMEN!!
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