"God Pause Daily Devotional" The Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States for Sunday, 26 June 2016 "Be Thou My Vision" (ELW 793, Verse 2)

"God Pause Daily Devotional" The Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States for Sunday, 26 June 2016 "Be Thou My Vision" (ELW 793, Verse 2)
2. Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord.
Thou my soul's shelter, and thou my high tow'r,
raise thou me heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.
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We have spent this week imagining the weight of the mantle of discipleship and the wonder of being called--as God's beloved--into partnership with God. And here we have a word inviting God to be in us--to be our wisdom, our language, our shelter, our wings. To be God as our power, our enervating force. Can it be so? Can we imagine it? Can we trust it to be? Yes! As new creations of God's own making we take within ourselves all that God has to offer: water, wine, word. Madeleine L'Engle reminds us that the nature of love is to create. God's love creates and recreates us continuously so that not only is God's love new every morning but we are new every morning, refreshed and ready to boldly shoulder our calling and to lean on to the everlasting arms of this amazing God.
Calling God, beckoning God, empowering God. You are our all in all. You are our every breath. Every moment of love given and received. You hold our soul and tenderly cradle our very life. Stir us to live as your free people, created in love, empowered to love for the sake of your world. Amen.
Chris Bellefeuille
Pastor, Valley of Peace Lutheran Church, Golden Valley, Minn.
Master of Divinity, 2003---------------------