Lent 2023 Day 9

I thought today I'd just give you a bit of a smile.   But with a serious point.   I was listening to an audio book version of 1st and 2nd Corinthians yesterday and once again this verse stood out to me  ' So if you think you're standing firm, be careful you don't fall ( 1 Cor 10:12)    

A modern day Pharisee's prayer.

Give us this day our daily bread
But don’t give it to them
Our need Lord is much greater
And they are lesser men
Their children don’t deserve the bread
For which we’ve laboured hard
I’d love for there to be world peace
Just not in my back yard
Forgive our sins as we forgive
( or don’t   -  they haven’t earned
the right to be forgiven
they haven’t really learned
their lesson ) I cant see
how I need to forgive them
before you can forgive me.
Don’t let me Lord be tempted
To steal or cheat or lie
Like those who beg out on the streets
Whilst I am walking by
‘Your will be done  Your kingdom come’
Are such nice words to pray
Help them to understand Lord
They need to know your way
Ive given cash to missions
Direct debit , tax deductible
It makes me feel good deep inside
My faith is indestructible
Ive got to go now Lord, but thanks
For everything you’ve done
And most of all for making me
So  much like your dear Son.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lent 23 day 6

Image
 Name I know I've already said quite alot about God's name in the past few days. But there are probably several gazillion more things to be said about it,  so I shall just bother you with a few more When Jesus calls God 'Father' in the Lord's prayer He is not using the word Abba.  God who has a holy, set apart, hallowed name is not to be approached as our Daddy.  He is Father.  We dont use the term Father much any more because in our 21st century world everything has become informal and casual.  But if you look back 100 years to the Victorian era you might get more of a sense of how Jesus is talking about His Father.   Picture a middle or upper class Victorian child being summoned into the study of his suited and booted, kind but disciplinarian father.  This child calls his Dad 'Father ' or 'Sir.'  There is a respect and almost a fear in the approach because that child knows that obedience is key to this relationship.  He knows the...
Read more

Lent 23 day 5

Image
  Hallowed. Small child at school asked his R E teacher who Harold was in the Bible.  Teacher scratched his head and said he didn't think there was a person called Harold in the Bible.  Small child said '  But Jesus said ' Harold be thy name' !   😁  ( there is no groan emoji.  I checked) I can think of very few other places in the English language where we use the word ' hallowed'.   Perhaps we tread the hallowed halls of some venerable old building. And Lords cricket ground is often referred to as hallowed. But apart from that it is a word which has pretty much fallen out of use everywhere except in the Lord's prayer.   I think its a great word.  It conveys more than just being holy.  To me it conjures up images of veneration and awe.  Perhaps of people bowing down.  Because to be hallowed means to be set apart as holy, to be pure, to be consecrated to God - to be ' rendered inviolable' .   Have ...
Read more

Lent 23 day 1

Image
 Welcome to the tenth Lent Blog , and if you have been here for every one of those past nine years your medal is in the post!   It hardly seems ten minutes ago since we were wrapping up the Advent blog and now here we are approaching Easter and trying to focus on the important things whilst the unimportant things clamour for attention. Im not quite sure how to tackle Lent this year but I have a notion that I might be being prompted to loosely hang things around the Lords prayer.  Which in many ways is so very very familiar, and yet in others is an unfathomable mystery. 😀   As ever I consider this to be a collaborative venture so please do feel free to add your contribution into the comments or to disagree, expand, share testimony or anything else you like.  And if you feel strongly that you would like to write a blog page yourself then do message me.  40 days is a long time and I usually run out of things to say well before the end 😁 So here we ...
Read more