Magnificent Prayer #261
Magnificent Prayer #261
LORD, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
you have made my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
surely I have a delightful inheritance.
Psalm 16:5–6
God does not show us the whole plan of our life at a burst, but unfolds it to us bit by bit. Each day He gives us the opportunity of weaving a curtain, carving a peg, fashioning the metal. We know not what we do, but at the end of our life the disjointed pieces will suddenly come together, and we shall see the symmetry and beauty of the divine thought. Then we shall be satisfied. In the meantime let us believe that God’s love and wisdom are doing the very best for us.
In the morning ask God to show you His plan for the day in the unfolding of its events, and to give you grace to do or bear all that He may have prepared. In the midst of the day’s engagements, often look up and say, “Father, is this in the plan?”
At night, be still, and match your actual with God’s ideal, confessing your sins and shortcomings, and asking that His will may be more perfectly done with you, even as in heaven.
F. B. MEYER
Pray About It: If we make prayer a vital part of each day, we will one day look back at the unfolding of the events in our life and see how God worked out all He had in mind for us. Even today, our life will unfold a bit more; the carving of the peg, the weave of the curtain, the fashioning of the metal. Ask today, “Father, is this in the plan?”
Happy the soul which by a sincere self-renunciation, holds itself ceaselessly in the hands of its Creator, ready to do everything which He wishes; which never stops saying to itself a hundred times a day, “Lord, what would you have me do?”
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON
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