Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob. Selah
Look upon our shield, O God; look with favor on your anointed one.
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor;
No good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Psalm 84: 8-12 (NIV)
I would rather be a doorkeeper.
I wonder what it would be like to be God’s doorkeeper.
To see all who comes and goes.
What they look like and what they carry to God?
I wonder if God’s doorkeeper ever puts her ear against the door and quietly eavesdrops.
Does she peek in?
Does she ever enter herself?
Does God even see her standing there?
Lord, at times I am your doorkeeper.
I stand half way, on the threshold of fully committing to you.
One foot in.
One foot turned away,
set to run back to my wicked ways.
I linger around the edges of Your goodness, wanting more yet afraid to ask.
I wait, but nor sure why I hesitate.
I dawdle with my reluctant heart and stubborn feet.
The Psalmist sings, “Blessed is the man who trusts in you.”
Help me to trust you more – to run through your door into your waiting arms.
Amen, Sister!
What a lovely image. Thanks, Mia!
I love your prayer here Nancy. I listened to a great speaker/writer when I traveled last week: Richard Rohr who said after years and years of contemplative prayer, he only gets glimpses and ofter at the end of his 20 minutes of prayer. I figured if he still fought with distractions, maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on myself and just let them go and refocus. Let’s both keep our eyes open to His continual and blessed goodness!
Kendall, that prayer: I believe, help my unbelief is one I say frequently. God is so amazing! Thanks for commenting a couple of times while I traveled. Hopefully I soon will get caught up and back to reading and commenting on other blogs soon. Thanks good friend!
“Lingering around the edges of God’s goodness.” Ah, yes. As I practice his presence, more of God’s goodness is obvious to me. So why am I so easily distracted?! Help me, Lord, not to be so foolish as to miss your goodness!
i believe! help me in my unbelief….what is amazing to me is that Jesus is the author of our faith. not us.
Dear Jean
Mike Yaconelli once said that going to God is like fearfully entering a room, being very fearful of what you will find inside! But once you have taken that step, you find that your Pappa gathers you into His arms!
Blessings