andrew dodson

This prayer was in the Sojourn bulletin when I attended a couple of weeks ago:

O Lord, how trivial are my aspirations and desires.  I pursue the amusements and toys and carnality of the modern world, while the higher longings of my soul weaken from neglect.  What do I need to remove from my life, in order to throw myself without reserve or impediment into the great cause of the gospel?  This is my brief moment in history.  I do not have forever.  Now is my time to speak to my generation.  Purify my heart, Lord.  Energize my desires.  Open my eyes.  Compel me with my personal responsibility to serve the interests of the gospel in the world today.  O Lord, let me spend my life for you, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.  Let the power of the gospel so grip me that I act upon it, come what may.  let me recover the power to live and to die for my faith.  In the holy name of Christ.  Amen.

- From A Passion for God, by Ray Ortlund