on further restrictions
could truly cause Ontario-ans to despair...😭
God, make us more faithful in prayer🙏
Today's window-font is frost-crisp silver and gold gilt!
(we were only at -18 this morning so rather balmy compared to
temperatures out west of around -40!)
When I am tempted to despair
Beneath life’s weight of woe
Lord, let your power by faith’s prayer
Doubt’s conflict overthrow
Lead me in paths of righteousness
For your name’s sake, (not mine)
Rekindle utter thankfulness
For grace and love divine
Let wisdom be the wealth I seek
Your wonders never cease
Then let the thoughts I choose to speak
Reflect hope, joy and peace
Lord, let truth purify my prayer
Until your law is chief
When I am tempted to despair
Lord, help mine unbelief
Half-truths will set a deadly snare
Lord, purify my fear
When I am tempted to despair
Let me Your law revere
For thou wilt keep in perfect peace
The mind, kind-stayed on Thee
Your increase sires the decrease
That births humility
When I am tempted to despair
Beneath care’s dread design
Stir in me Gethsemane’s prayer
Lord, not my will but thine
And make my chief delight your law
Lord, purify my love
Until its most despairing flaw
Is ‘never quite enough’
When I am tempted to despair
Lord, purify my plea
With an image beyond compare
The cross of Calvary
The price of pride no lie can foil
With clanging flattery
How brutal is the bitter spoil
Of Self-first clarity
When I am tempted to despair
Lord, purify my goal
And lift my eyes beyond earth's care
To the home of the soul
© Janet Martin
It's easy to become disillusioned by what we see...
Oh, may it never be
we lose our way/faith
and are tempted to despair...
I had a craving to listen to this oldie this morning...
Lest we forget God's Sovereignty
(Click link above for full chapter)
Below a few excerpts...
Do not learn the ways of the nations
or be terrified by signs in the heavens,
though the nations are terrified by them.
3For the practices of the peoples are worthless;
they cut a tree out of the forest,
and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4They adorn it with silver and gold;
they fasten it with hammer and nails
so it will not totter.
5Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field,
their idols cannot speak;
they must be carried
because they cannot walk.
Do not fear them;
they can do no harm
nor can they do any good.”
6No one is like you, Lord;
you are great,
and your name is mighty in power.
7Who should not fear you,
King of the nations?
This is your due.
Among all the wise leaders of the nations
and in all their kingdoms,
there is no one like you...
..the Lord is the true God;
he is the living God, the eternal King.
When he is angry, the earth trembles;
the nations cannot endure his wrath..
12But God made the earth by his power;
he founded the world by his wisdom
and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
13When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar;
he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
He sends lightning with the rain
and brings out the wind from his storehouses...
23Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own;
it is not for them to direct their steps.
24Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure—
not in your anger,
or you will reduce me to nothing.
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