Father's Heart

Gracious and loving God,

I stand in awe of Your infinite patience.

You desire my perfect wholeness.

You are deeply desirous to make me perfectly whole,

even to the extent of entering into my brokenness

and taking its death into Your own being on the cross.

And yet You never violate my independence,

You never trample upon my free will,

You never usurp the integrity of my being.

You wait in infinite patience for me to open my life

to Your cleansing, healing, liberating, transforming grace.

You wait for me to willingly cooperate with Your purposes

for my wholeness.

Help me, O my God, to offer to you the deep inner yieldedness

of my being that will enable my spiritual disciplines

to become avenues of Your grace in me.

-anonymous-

Hi peoples,

Isn't it good that Father does not impose His will on us but like a Shepherd gently guides us in the path that we should take. Let us therefore not neglect our spiritual disciplines of studying His Word and abiding in Him. Coming before Him in worship and with thanksgiving for life - its ups and downs, and all that He has blessed us with.

It is not a chore to be with Him,

It is a pleasure to come to Father,

Who is interested to make us whole and create in us the fullness of His being.

It is in this place we find rest for our souls

- in the midst of pain, tiredness or hopelessness,

He is there at work in us.

It is in this place of surrender that we allow Him to bring about the wholeness.

It is in this place of solitude and silence that He works deep,

It goes beyond the knowing of man...

Somehow through time and perseverance,

We know we have changed for the better...

His grace and Abba Father's love enables us to move on...

-jo-