Lord, I've Been Thinking

Lord, I’ve been thinking
About the problems of life.
You’ve shown me that I can analyze,
Dissect, reason, search for the whys,
See who’s to blame for this part
Or that part . .  . 
Try to figure out this, that and the other –
But I’ll always be brought back to
“Jesus Christ the same Yesterday,
Today and forever.” (Heb 13:8)
No matter how complex a situation is,
You, Lord, are our only source of strength,
Peace, guidance, comfort and reason.
No amount of self-effort to intellectualize,
Philosophize, reason out
Or on and on and on . . .
Can bring us peace.
Only YOUR Word,
YOUR Truth can do that, Lord.
No matter what situation
We find ourselves in,
Help us not to waste time and energy
In useless self-effort.

Help us learn more and more how to let go
And let YOU be our peace,
Our truth, our comfort
In the midst of the problem
-- While we wait for the answer --
-- While we believe for YOUR solution --
We can have peace now --
We don’t have to have the problem
Gone and fixed
In order to have YOUR peace.
We can know YOUR peace now, Lord!







(Written in 2011)