Scripture and Prayer on Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Pastor David reads 2 Kings 6:1-23 and offers a prayer from John Greenleaf Whittier:

Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways!
Reclothe us in our rightful mind; in purer lives thy service find, in deeper reverence, praise.

In simple trust like theirs who heard beside the Syrian sea
The gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word, rise up and follow thee.

O sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above!
Where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity interpreted by love.

Drop thy still dews of quietness ’til all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace.

Breathe through the heat of our desire thy coolness and thy balm;
Let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm.

Posted by Mt. Haley Church of God on Wednesday, September 22, 2021