When I Am Tempted to Despair

An impending announcement this morning

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...

Home of the Soul

Jer.10

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.