Disturb Us Lord

I know many people who like to “cruise” through their Christianity. They don’t challenge anything. They keep their silence on issues so as not to rock the boat. They are dutifully involved in all the programs at church. They are the ones that church leadership love. Unfortunately I am not one of these people. I don’t like being comfortable in my safe little world. I don’t want to forget about those out there who do not have the hope that I have. I want to be challenged to grow and to become more than I am today. There is a saying that says, “Jesus came to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable”. I believe that discomfort and challenge is necessary if we are to fulfil all God intended us to in life. I love the following poem. May this be the prayer of all of Christ’s followers.

Disturb Us Lord

Disturb us Lord
When we are too well pleased with ourselves;
When our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little;
When we arrived safely because we sailed too close to shore;

Disturb us Lord
When with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst for the waters of life;
We have ceased to dream of eternity;
And in our efforts to build a new earth
We have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim.

Disturb us Lord
To dare more boldly;
To venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land we shall find stars;
We ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes
And to push us in the future in strength, courage, hope and love.

Sir Francis Drake
December 1577