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ILLUSTRATION:
In his book Thoughts in Solitude, Thomas Merton wrote fifteen lines that have become known as “the Merton Prayer”:
My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going.
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.
And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.
I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.
And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it.
Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death.
I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
What does it mean to be about my Father business?
1. DOING THE FATHER’S WORK
2. PROCLAIMING THE FATHER’S WORDS
3. REVEALING THE FATHER’S CHARACTER
4. CARRYING ON THE FATHER’S WILL
Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.—Luke
22:42
5. GLORIFYING THE FATHER’S NAME
Father, glorify thy name.
Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.—John
12:28
6. BRINGING TO THE FATHER’S HOUSE
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you.
I go to prepare a place for you.—John
14:2
7. UNFOLDING THE FATHER’S LOVE
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.—John 16:27
Davis, B. L. (2012).
52 Sermons about Jesus (pp.
66–67).
Barry Davis.
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