What Only God Can Pull Off

 

And he said, "O LORD,

God of my master Abraham,

please grant me success today

and show steadfast love

to my master Abraham.

            Genesis 24. 12

(Acknowledging that

it is God who causes to happen

to us what we seek,

not a particular answer

   of our own choosing

                or timing,

    but His way,

    His completion,

  and His glory in this.

His surprising ways reveal

not just His hand,

     but His Presence.

In Hebrew, it literally means

to make beams and joists

    to meet one another.

It is God who has done this,

not that things come together,

          or work out,

    but are designed that way

    to make Himself known.

Our experiences don't just happen

                     or come about.

What is at stake?

What do we make known?

       His glory or ours?)

O LORD,

Your steadfast love guides us

   through the miry bogs,

   tangles of impossibilities,

   and the great unknown,

not toward an outcome,

     but closer to You.

We ask that You would bless

        our efforts

        and our faithfulness

and amaze us

    not by "what happens"

but how You redeem

           all things.

Liberate us from our

       narrow pursuits.

Invite us into Your purposes.

Astonish us.