Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
24/10/07 16:50
Dark the
night of sin has settled, loud the angry billows
roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
You never know, do you? You never know when someone is watching you, observing you for the opportunity to learn or approach. When someone struggles, when someone is hurt, when someone is reaching out, and they come across you, what will they find?
It is hard to admit a problem. It is hard to ask for guidance. Yet it is easy to be angry, to be defensive. It is easy to turn away. But it is almost impossible for us to be of assistance if we are not cognizant of the notion that someone may be watching us, learning from us, maybe even reaching out to us.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
Many people have been hurt by people of the church. Hurtful, perhaps judgmental things said, even with the best intentions, can literally cause years of turmoil for wounded souls.
Brightly beams our Father's mercy from His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore.
And what a responsibility!!! Our very words and actions are ambassadors for the God we serve. Those struggling to know the Lord better will take our actions and relate them to God's feelings for themselves. It may not be fair, and it may not be right, but it is true. It is absolutely true.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Trying now to make the harbor, some poor sailor may be lost.
Dear Lord,
Help us to understand that our faith is always on display, even when we don't realize that someone is looking to us. Help us to Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, to forever stand as a beacon in the night to those you may send our way. And brighten and intensify our light, Father, so that it may reach further into the darkness, letting troubled souls know that they are safe and welcome on your shore.
Amen.
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
You never know, do you? You never know when someone is watching you, observing you for the opportunity to learn or approach. When someone struggles, when someone is hurt, when someone is reaching out, and they come across you, what will they find?
It is hard to admit a problem. It is hard to ask for guidance. Yet it is easy to be angry, to be defensive. It is easy to turn away. But it is almost impossible for us to be of assistance if we are not cognizant of the notion that someone may be watching us, learning from us, maybe even reaching out to us.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Eager eyes are watching, longing, for the lights, along the shore.
Many people have been hurt by people of the church. Hurtful, perhaps judgmental things said, even with the best intentions, can literally cause years of turmoil for wounded souls.
Brightly beams our Father's mercy from His lighthouse evermore,
But to us He gives the keeping of the lights along the shore.
And what a responsibility!!! Our very words and actions are ambassadors for the God we serve. Those struggling to know the Lord better will take our actions and relate them to God's feelings for themselves. It may not be fair, and it may not be right, but it is true. It is absolutely true.
Trim your feeble lamp, my brother, some poor sailor tempest tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor, in the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!
Trying now to make the harbor, some poor sailor may be lost.
Dear Lord,
Help us to understand that our faith is always on display, even when we don't realize that someone is looking to us. Help us to Let the Lower Lights Be Burning, to forever stand as a beacon in the night to those you may send our way. And brighten and intensify our light, Father, so that it may reach further into the darkness, letting troubled souls know that they are safe and welcome on your shore.
Amen.