August 20-26, 2017
Sermon Text: Genesis 45:1-15
That
we may keep trusting You when we suffer in ways that seem meaningless
God of Grace, it is seldom clear to us that the rejection, alienation,
abuse, abandonment, pain, and other troubles that we face have been
providential gifts that place us in position to do good for others.
Most of us have neither the foresight nor the hindsight of Joseph.
Although we trust in You, many of the things we endure never come to have a
clear meaning for us.
We suffer. We trust in You. We endure. We go on with our “whys?”
unanswered.
We know that we are able to endure only because You give us a measure of
endurance and courage that we could not simply muster on our own. We believe
that You are working for our good in every situation. Enable us to keep
trusting You even when the meaning of the things we must endure escapes us.
Amen.
NOTE: We had a guest speaker who went a different direction. This prayer was not used in our Sunday worship (but most likely will be in our Tuesday prayer meeting).
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