Who is the last person, or kind of person, you would ever guess might fear themselves falling into indifference, apathy, complacency? How about the intrepid Sir Francis Drake, explorer extraordinaire?
Hear his prayer, 1577, written on a voyage around the earth:
Disturb us, Lord, when we are too well-pleased with ourselves
When our dreams have come true becuse we deamed too little,
When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst for the waters of life.
Having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the
new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly
To venture on wilder seas where storms will show Your majesty;
Where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars.
We ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes
And to push into the future in strength, courage, hope, and love.
This we ask in the name of our Captain, who Jesus Christ.
Confident Weakness Bible Study, week 1
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