Disturb us, Lord
April 9, 2008 at 10:46 pm (Christianity, change, personal, quotes)
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.-Sir Francis Drake
(only partially quoted)
My closest girlfriends and I have just started to have prayer times together every week. It’s new, so who knows if it will continue–we want it to, but don’t know if it will. Anyway, one of my dearest friends said something during her prayer that really captured my heart.
Clean out our dark corners, Lord.
It was a beautiful sentence, crammed in the rest of her prayers for us to really be made new. Clean out our dark corners she said. It really struck me and I’ve been saying it over and over to myself. I am far too content to let my dark corners stay cobwebby and dusty. It’s much harder to see them exposed with the sin and mess that they contain.
And then tonight I read the above prayer that really rattled me. Disturb us, Lord. What a violent prayer. This is asking the infinite, perfect God of the universe to make the dark corners unavoidable, something He is more than willing to do. It is a startling prayer, and really brutal in its honesty.
I’ve been praying hard prayers lately. Good prayers, but hard ones. These two will certainly be added to that list.
-Sarah
Jeff said,
April 14, 2008 at 6:47 pm
You have awaken me to how people can bless me when I am down even when I don’t know you. but your words of encouragement have flamed the Holy Spirit within, the Bible say’s if you rescue someone by your prayers know that you have saved that person from a multitude of sins
Jody said,
June 18, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Hi Sarah -
I’d like to use part of your post in a book I’m writing, and would like to request permission to do so - Could you email me if this would be ok with you?