Everywhere and Always Is In You

Today is one of those days where I am just about blown away by God’s goodness and awesomeness.  God has blessed us in oh so many ways!  My thanks and praise just can’t cover it all.  How fitting it was to read this prayer this morning.
From the Bob Hostetler’s Prayer Blog for today:

Abba,

my language isn’t sufficient for you. 

I can’t express your beauty, 

your majesty, 

not even your presence. 

I know that no matter where I go, 

you are there. 

You do not arrive after me, 

you do not even arrive before me. 

You are not even, to be accurate, already “there,” 

for the “there” itself is not a place you occupy, 

any more than a moment is a moment to you…

the “there” itself–like the “now” or the “then”–

is found in you, not you in it,

for everywhere and always is in you.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, 

but I praise you in my ignorance and littleness.

Amen             By Bob Hostetler

(And I know with complete confidence that God accepts my simple praise with great joy!)

Not me, but You Lord

 

This was my heart’s prayer today and then there it was in word’s on Bob Hostetler’s blog.  Thank you Bob for speaking my heart.

Empty me, Lord. 

Teach me not to have to be seen, 
not to need to be right, 
not to seek to be acknowledged, 
not to want to be valued. 

Help me to say–
and to mean it when I do–
“I am an unworthy servant; 
I have only done my duty,” (Luke 17:10), 
and I have already received 
far, far better than I have deserved, 
in Jesus’ name,

Amen.

You are all!

Here is another prayer from Bob Hostetler’s Prayer Blog – one which really spoke to me today and one I will return to often.  It is so good to be reminded that God is so much more than our minds can take in.

God, I praise you for your immanence.
I praise you because you are above all;
you see and know and control all things,
including all the influences and instances of my life.
I praise you because you are beneath all things;
your presence and control extends
to the depths of the lakes and seas,
the innermost parts of the earth,
including the “hidden” reaches of my heart and soul.
I praise you because you dwell outside and beyond all;
you are not confined or hemmed in by space or time,
by this universe, nor even by my circumstances or shortcomings.
I praise you because you are in all,
filling all,
yet distinct from all created things,
and you are the source and supply of all I am and have, amen.