Prayer for the Week

As I’ve shared before, one of the disciplines that I enjoy is the Daily Office. Each week, there is a different “prayer for the week” that you read everyday. I thought I would share this week’s prayer. 

Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness keep me, I pray, from all things that may hurt me, that I, being ready both in mind and body, may accomplish with a free heart those things which belong to your purpose; through Jesus Christ my Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. AMEN. 

When I worked with High School students, I use to say to them that maturity in faith comes when we agree with God’s evaluation of what is truly dangerous to our lives. I know that my life changed dramatically when I began to see the Bible in a different way; not a set of rules and regulations designed to “steal” life, but rather a guide for experience the “fullness” of life. I think that is why John 10:10 where Jesus says that he has come to “give life and life to the full,” has always been a key verse for me. That thought stuck in my mind today as I read this prayer for the week.