We Want To Know

Father, I come to you this morning thinking about you being our Good Shepherd. We don't understand the full ramifications of this...but we are sheep. A mass and mess of bleating and bleeding sheep who need a good shepherd to guide us, to lead us where sometimes we just don't have enough sense to go or to stay.

Father, today I pray we would listen for your voice--we know it. We know the timbre and the tone. We know the difference between yours and others. Please, Father, help us to follow after you. To be led by you. Not just to green pastures, but even in the places where the shadow of death hovers.

Father, we know your love. We want to know it more. We know your goodness. We want to understand it more. We know your faithfulness. We want to trust it more. We have seen your power. We have felt the faint edges of it. But we want you to empower us. To equip us. To energize us to do and be the calling you have for us. We want to experience your power...help us not to be timid. Help us not to be hesitant or reluctant to ask you to use your power to lead people to you. To lead people to the Good Shepherd.

We want to see you. To know you.

Father, today speak to us. Help us to listen. Father, we love you. Oh, how we love you. Please help us love you more.

Amen and amen