My God, My God...

This is a prayer I've had on my heart for a while but finally took time to write down last night.

God, You revealed to Ezekiel "living beings" who had faces on all sides of their heads and four wings. You directed them down the path you chose, and, despite their fearful appearance and power, they moved straight ahead to where You told them without turning to look at what was behind.

My God, give me faith like that.

God, You heard a couple's cry for a child and granted them a son, even at ancient ages. Then, as a test of his faith, You commanded the father to sacrifice that gift-child to You on an altar. Only when You reached out to stop him did he pause in carrying out Your will, even if it meant killing his only child, his miracle seed.

My God, give me faith like that.

God, a young woman was approached by a total stranger at a well. She was given gifts and told to come with him, that it was God's will for her to marry a man she had never laid eyes on. And when they asked if she would leave her home, her family, her life and set out toward an unknown future, she said without hesitation, "Yes, I will go."

My God, give me faith like that.

God, a man bowed before You in a garden. So many before him had been willing to do all that You said, but he begged for another way out. If there was an alternative - someone else to do what had to be done, a different way it could be carried out - if only it didn't have to be him. But You sent Your peace to him. You calmed his spirit like rain on a blaze, and he did what You commanded with a final phrase on his lips: "I want Your will to be done, not mine."

O, my God, my God. Give me faith like that.