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Yes, Lord I
believe in you.
I could
confess that for years.
In my head I understood
what you
have done for me
and with my
mouth
I could
talk about it.
But that was the extent of it.
I had not understood
that you
wanted to use
my heart for
brotherly love,
my hands for
helping,
and my feet
with willingness
today and
now.
Of course I knew about
the needs
of my neighbors and friends.
But I
always just said:
“I will
pray for you“.
With that
the matter
was finished
for me.
Jesus, I do have to confess
my heart
was not in it.
On my own I
did not get the idea
the reason
you let me know
about the
need of another person
was that
you wanted to use me
to bring
about a solution
and to
bless me through it.
My own effort
would not
have been hard
and the
problems of the other person
would have
been reduced.
But I was
not willing
and was
always hoping
that
another person
would
intervene.
Jesus, when you
let me know
about a need,
from now on
I want to
first think about
what I can
do to alleviate it
instead of
what I should pray,
so that you
will intervene.
I am the one
who you
would like to use
in that
very moment -
otherwise
you would not have
told me
about the need.
Help me
that from
now on
I will not
only make
my head and
my mouth,
but my
heart, my hands, my feet
and
whatever else belongs to me
available
for you.
Theme: What Jesus really wants from us
When he saw the
crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless,
like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, The harvest
is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest,
therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
Matthew
9:36-38
(NIV Translation)
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