Disturb us Lord

Have you ever found yourself too comfortable in your work for the Lord, or maybe lost the awe of who He really is?  Sometimes we get so complacent we miss the opportunities God has for us.  Sometimes we are scared of failure, we have spirit of fear, or maybe we are simply unwilling to sacrifice.  Let us remember what Jesus said Mat 20:27-28 (NEB) "...whoever wants to be great must be your servant, and
  whoever wants to be first must be the willing slave of all--like the Son of Man;  He did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give up his life as a ransom  for many." I love the poem that Sir Francis Drake wrote:

Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased
with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too
little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the
shore.


Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build
a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
attributed - sir francis drake -1577

May we never find ourself too close to the shore in our work for the Lord.