Not Just An Errand or Detour

 

On the way to Jerusalem

He was passing along

between Samaria and Galilee.

              Luke 17. 11

(We are never just

                 "passing along."

Wherever we go,

     even on the way to Home Depot,

God has strategically placed us.

How do we see the day

            ahead of us?

Full of difficulties

     and bothersome tasks

     to get through on our own?

Or overflowing with opportunities

    to love and serve Him

        with His strength.

Our most profound ministry

    may be embedded

    in our comings and goings

       on the most ordinary days.

How do we respond

   to what we see as a speed bump

               or pothole,

which may not be

     an interruption at all?

God brings His strength to us

      to bring His name here.)

O LORD,

Open our eyes along our way

that we would respond

   with a different heart

   to even the most ordinary

              or difficult.

Build Your strength in us

  that we may more freely give.

Help us to be aware

    and pay attention

to what -- or whom--

You place on our path today.

For Your glory.

In Your name.