Making Choices

 

.....because in him

there was found something

pleasing to God.

          1 Kings 14.15

I have an ancestor

       named Abijah.

I thought it was an odd name,

  until I came to this passage.

What a promise and blessing

   bestowed by that name.

What do we choose today

     that is pleasing to God?

Not to gain His favor

  but out of our love for God,

faithful to Him

 in our words, acts,

    and in what we are occupied.

May we be known

   by that kind of faithfulness.

O LORD,

In these circumstances today, 

we do not seek blessing

          for ourselves,

  but to bless You in it.

Show us Your way through.

May You find us faithful

           and grateful

wherever we are,

among whomever we encounter,

and in whatever we do.

Order our days.

Order our ways.

May our lives be distinguished

   by pleasing You.

It is our delight.