They told me they were satisfied with life, they did not need anything else, they did not need to change, they did not need God. At some point, we must choose if we will settle for where we are at in our life, living without belief God has something more. Whether or not we have asked God to come into our life, we all tend to settle for living life less than what has been planned. The thing is . . . as the stuff of life stacks up we begin to lose our passion, weary from the daily battles . . . and miss the gift of the day, the celebration of living beyond our abilities, circumstances, and dreams.
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed 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 wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
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.
Kerrie
(written by Kerrie Carlisle Palmer © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
We need to be disturbed, refusing to settle, refusing to just make it through, refusing to miss what more God has.Consider.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us . . . (Ephesians 3:20, NIV).Each day becomes an opportunity to be disturbed with where we are at, daring to do more than we can ever ask, think, or imagine, courageously following Christ, praying as Sir Francis Drake prayed in 1577,
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed 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 wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
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.
Risk it. Ask God to unimaginably disturb you with more. Courageously receive what God has for you.Learning to Kickstart the day, asking God to disturb us,
Kerrie
(written by Kerrie Carlisle Palmer © 2011 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)