Prayer for the Week: Provided by Dr. Joel Plaag, Director Of Traditional Worship.
We all fall short, O God, of what you would have us be. Maybe we don’t use our gifts to the best of our ability. Maybe we don’t listen well or we don’t speak well. Perhaps our cooking skills, our writing, our joke-telling, our technology-wielding seems insufficient for the work You would have us do. In these times, O God, remind us that Moses had to ask for the right words, that David had to be taller than he was, that Paul had to overcome his prejudice, and that Peter had to reconcile his fears. When we are blinded, sightless by our emotional upsets, by our physical frailties, by our spiritual wilderness, walk with us, as you walked with Fanny Crosby. Show us that to be faithful people takes work, challenge, and growth. Even the best among us, even the heroes of Christianity, who walk it and talk it each day, have their moments of doubt. Walk with us through these. Grant us the grace that blinds our frailties to You through your absolute love of us, which we see every day, both in the faces of one another, and in the acts of Jesus. Mold us, O God, into Your People, into Your Church, and into Your World. Amen.
