TRUSTING GOD’s PLAN
Daily Devotional
Daily Devotional
Cultivate trust for God’s plans each day this week.
January 17: Seek and Speak
- Scripture: Psalm 9:10 — And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.
- Reflection: Trusting involves a relationship. This also means naming what you want and need. God’s answer may come in God’s own time, and it may come in forms and ways you did not anticipate. Yet God listens and God responds.
Anne Lamott entitled her book about prayer “Help Thanks Wow.” Sometimes we need help and support. Sometimes we seek a reason to praise, a ‘wow’ moment. Sometimes we are moved to express gratitude. We require all of these experiences, and the chance to share them with God. - Spiritual Discipline: Use this prompt from Anne Lamott. Create a prayer that includes one of each: Help. Thanks. Wow.
SONGS:
- Draw Me Close by Seek First:https://youtu.be/NQRiaNBaQ94?si=hA-EQb4Yu7XI-An3
- Help Thanks Wow by Crossraods Kids Club: https://youtu.be/zLaSaW7Qu94?si=OebG3e72KVEB-e0
My belief is that when you’re telling the truth, you’re close to God. If you say to God, “I am exhausted and depressed beyond words, and I don’t like You at all right now, and I recoil from most people who believe in You,” that might be the most honest thing you’ve ever said. If you told me you had said to God, “It is all hopeless, and I don’t have a clue if You exist, but I could use a hand,” it would almost bring tears to my eyes, tears of pride in you, for the courage it takes to get real-really real. It would make me want to sit next to you at the dinner table.
So prayer is our sometimes real selves trying to communicate with the Real, with Truth, with the Light. It is us reaching out to be heard, hoping to be found by a light and warmth in the world, instead of darkness and cold. Even mushrooms respond to light – I suppose they blink their mushroomy eyes, like the rest of us.
Light reveals us to ourselves, which is not always so great if you find yourself in a big disgusting mess, possibly of your own creation. But like sunflowers we turn toward light. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. And in this light, we can see beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside. — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow
So prayer is our sometimes real selves trying to communicate with the Real, with Truth, with the Light. It is us reaching out to be heard, hoping to be found by a light and warmth in the world, instead of darkness and cold. Even mushrooms respond to light – I suppose they blink their mushroomy eyes, like the rest of us.
Light reveals us to ourselves, which is not always so great if you find yourself in a big disgusting mess, possibly of your own creation. But like sunflowers we turn toward light. Light warms, and in most cases it draws us to itself. And in this light, we can see beyond our modest receptors, to what is way beyond us, and deep inside. — Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow
Jan 17 Daily Devotional