Which of the following are similar to the ways you've served Christ in your family? [check all that apply]
• Taught your kids to see God's glory in nature
• Washed the dishes without being asked
• Played a board game with your kids
• Encouraged your wife to finish her master's degree
• Attended a child's open house at school
• Worked fewer hours to be with your family
• Set an example of a godly prayer life for your children
• Held a crying child
• Swung on the tire swing with your daughter
• Told your wife why you're still in love with her
• Told your son he's got what it takes
• Coached soccer
• Let you child correct you now and then
• Fixed the vacuum cleaner
• Taught your sons to ride a bike
• Listened patiently to a complaint of your wife
• Taped your child's artwork to your office wall
• Admitted to your kids that you were wrong
• Told your children how Christ entered your life
• Cleaned up vomit
• Taught your children to love books
• Been romantic without expecting sex
• Told your daughter she's smart/beautiful
• Set standards for your kids and stuck to them
• Dealt graciously with a busybody neighbor
• Peeled carrots
• Watched movies together
Calibrate Your Compass Theme for this Week: Prayer Cover Friday, May 17, 2002
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May/June 200253Calibrate Your CompassTheme for this Week: Prayer Cover Calibrate Your Compass Theme for this Week: Prayer Cover Friday, May 17
Key Bible Verses: Jesus … went off by himself in a boat to a remote area to be alone (Matthew 14:13). Bonus Reading:2 Corinthians 12:7b–10
Jack Collingsworth is a nautical instruments technician. In the early spring, just before the ice breaks up in the Great Lakes, Jack goes on board the ships that pry open the waters of Lakes Michigan, Huron, and Erie and checks their instruments.
These ships are tied up in a quiet harbor alongside a concrete dock, where they are free from any movement. In that quiet basin, he examines and corrects the compasses and other instruments used to guide the ships. Jack then gives his approval and reports his results to the captain, telling him that he can depend upon them as he starts out on his voyage.
Prayer is like that. It is anchoring ourselves in some quiet spot and letting God come aboard our lives and make the adjustments that are necessary. Prayer becomes a two-way street. We seek His will for others and ourselves, we tell Him our deepest needs, and He meets us where we are, as we are, and works His peace within us.
As part of your time of devotion, meet with God in prayer. Let Him bless you and use you for His will. Talk to God and let Him talk to you. Discover how to listen to Him.
—Peter Deison in The Priority of Knowing God
My Response: I'll work at making prayer a "two-way street" by …
Thought to Apply: If Christ himself needed to retire occasionally to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to admit that necessity. —B. H. Streeter
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