Who is in Control Here?

 

For the love of Christ

     controls us...

    2 Corinthians 5. 14

(What can be new here?

Who do we allow

           to be in control?

Jesus' love holds us fast,

keeps us completely,

compels us to see all things

    with a new heart,

urges us

   not just to do something

   different in this situation,

but to be someone different,

       a force of love

       and newness.

How do we respond

   to these circumstances,

   to this dilemma,

   to these impossible people?

His grace has been

        poured over us.

We cannot help

  but to be different,

an instrument of His love

          and healing.)

O LORD,

We seek that You

   would control our hearts

that we would be

   ambassadors

            of Your grace

in a foreign place

   or the utterly familiar.

Hold us tight.

Direct our thoughts.

Guide our steps.

Confirm Your grace in us.

May Your love order

         our responses today.