How often have we been courageous enough to pray sincerely,
“Come Creator”?
How often have we really asked Him
to create,
recreate
and reconstruct us,
bring us down to death
and back to life again?
Do we honestly want this consuming Spirit
to destroy the awful power we have
of resisting Him?
-Louis Evely
The reality of God is devastating. Lord, let me be devastated.
There are times when the spiritual life, ebbing and flowing, always in motion, slows to a near stop…when, lulled by the status quo, by the ordinariness of our life with God, our prayer, our life in church, our life at work, our life at home…we stop moving forward. I am in that place…and seeing it, I am once again shaken, troubled…faced with the need to ask my Lord, fearlessly, to create, recreate, reconstruct me…to bring me down to death and back again. My resistance to God so often manifests itself as apathy…
And yet, in this place of devastation…I am met once again with grace. Anxiously returning home from my wanderings…carried away by my imagination, attention drawn away by worries of money and career, lulled to sleep by activity and a tight schedule…I am met at the road by my Father, arms wide open…and I am home again.
Come Creator…my teacher…my Lord. Reconstruct me once again.
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