As I was reading the story of Joseph in prison in Genesis 39, I came across this “Prayer for the Fulfillment of God’s Will” written by Phillips Brooks in the 1800’s. Joseph had been obedient to God and was still following God even after being sold into slavery by his brothers. He had been a good worker for his master and yet had been accused of attempting to rape his master’s wife. His master put him in jail where he still remained faithful to God. In all circumstances of life, Joseph stayed true to God.
This prayer struck me and I wanted to share it. Read it, pray it, pass it on, or pass it by as you see fit. Perhaps just a few words of it will touch your heart today, some day soon or down the road somewhere.
O Lord, by your dealings with us, whether of joy or pain, of light or darkness, let us be brought to you. Let us value no treatment of your grace simply because it makes us happy or because it makes us sad, because it gives us or denies us what we want; but may all that you send us bring us to you; that knowing your perfectness, we may be sure in every disappointment you are still loving us, in every darkness you are still enlightening us, and in every enforced idleness you are giving us life, as in his death you gave life to your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) (Praise and Worship Study Bible, Tyndale House, 2002, page 54)
This prayer struck me and I wanted to share it. Read it, pray it, pass it on, or pass it by as you see fit. Perhaps just a few words of it will touch your heart today, some day soon or down the road somewhere.
O Lord, by your dealings with us, whether of joy or pain, of light or darkness, let us be brought to you. Let us value no treatment of your grace simply because it makes us happy or because it makes us sad, because it gives us or denies us what we want; but may all that you send us bring us to you; that knowing your perfectness, we may be sure in every disappointment you are still loving us, in every darkness you are still enlightening us, and in every enforced idleness you are giving us life, as in his death you gave life to your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) (Praise and Worship Study Bible, Tyndale House, 2002, page 54)
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