12.03.2010

A Prayer for Perspective

My Lord: 
You have the wisdom to advance the gospel and your very own ways and through people and events.

Give me your perspective on my circumstances. 
Grant me eyes to focus on the eternal good rather than the temporary affliction.  
Give me a heart that feels more intensely the joy in the advance of the gospel than the pain of personal offense or loss.
Protect me from becoming envious, defensive, bitter, hard or cynical.  

Let the life of Jesus Christ course my veins so that when I bleed in death, 
I bleed the love of Jesus. 

Amen.

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