Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength

Good Wednesday morning, my friends.

How often do we look at ministry or serving opportunities, measure our abilities to accomplish it, and make a decision on whether or not we will participate based on that assessment?

How often do we pray "Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength"?  My record shows much more of the former, and few of the latter.  

Maybe it's time to re-examine how we determine what Kingdom work we will be involved in.  Maybe it's time to ask the Holy Spirit to make those decisions for us.

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance,

Bruce

Our Father, who has set a restlessness in our hearts and made us all seekers after that which we can never fully find, forbid us to be satisfied with what we make of life. 

Draw us from base content and set our eyes on far off goals. 

Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength. 

Deliver us from the fretfulness and self-pitying; make us sure of the good we cannot see and of the hidden good in the world. 

Open our eyes to simple beauty all around us and our hearts to the loveliness men hide from us because we do not try to understand them. 

Save us from ourselves and show us a vision of the world made new. 

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

(http://www.bukisa.com/articles/349775_great-prayers-for-strength)

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