Hear me, Lord, for I am a sinner,
which means I have nothing except prayer.
Protect me for the day of dryness and impotence.
When neither a swallow’s flight nor peonies, daffodils
and irises in the flower market are a sign of Your glory.
When I will be surrounded by scoffers and unable,
against their arguments, to remember any miracle of Yours.
When I will seem to myself an imposter and swindler because I take part in religious rites.
When I will accuse You of establishing the universal law of death.
When I am ready at last to bow down to nothingness and
call life on earth a devil’s vaudeville.
God does not hear us because we pray earnestly – he hears us solely on the basis of redemption. God is never impressed by our earnestness.
Oswald Chambers, September 16, My Utmost for His Highest
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