Here’s
a prayer about obedience from Walter Brueggemann.
A Hard, Deep Call to Obedience
You
are the God who makes extravagant promises.
We
relish your great promises of fidelity and presence and solidarity,
and
we exude in them.
Only
to find out, always too late,
that
your promise always comes in the midst of a hard, deep call to obedience.
You
are the God who calls people like us,
and
the long list of mothers and fathers before us,
who
trusted the promise enough to keep the call.
So
we give you thanks that you are a calling God,
who
calls always to dangerous new places.
We
pray enough of your grace and mercy among us
that
we may be among those who believe your promises
enough
to respond to your call.
We
pray in the one who embodied your promise
and
enacted your call, even Jesus. Amen.
~
written by Walter Brueggemann, in Awed to
Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann, (Augsburg Fortress,
2003, p. 90). Posted on Consider Your Call. http://www.consideryourcall.org/sites/default/files/CYC-Media/Toolbox/Materials/Worship-Toolbox.pdf
