Something Greater

Lord, our Lord, open my heart and mind today to delight in your magnificent goodness and greatness. Remind me of your power shown in creating everything out of nothing: the earth, the universe...every molecule of substance, created and sustained by your constant power and wisdom. Lord, grant me humility today. Move my heart towards gratitude and obedience and worship in all that you have done, are doing, and will do for the sake of your glory and our greatest good. Make me keenly aware of the selfish, willfully disobedient part of my heart and mind. Make me see how I am searching for love and success and satisfaction in all the wrong places. Make me to know afresh how created things can never truly satisfy my hunger and thirst for my the One Who created me. I put my hope in you, Lord. Bring me out of anxiety. Bring to an end my loneliness. Bring me to you! Open my heart and mind to shout and sing in jubilant joy in you our Lord, our King! A Prayer base...

Saved to Serve Acts 9:8 What has gone before... Saul, "breathing threats and murder", traveled to Damascus to rout Jewish Christians. His mind and heart were engorged with lust for violent, crushing punishment of people he regarded as traitors to Judaism, idolaters of a false god. The writer of the Book of Acts described Christians as ones "belonging to the Way", reminding all of us to see our life as a road, with many changes in terrain and direction, but leading to a greatly desired destination. Midway on his chosen road of retribution, Saul was brought to his knees with physical blindness and spiritual clarity. The Jesus he had sought to grind into forgotten history was suddenly very real, and very persuasive. Moving on... Blind, perhaps confused, probably frightened and emotionally spent, Saul seemed near death: "Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into ...