Minchah Prayer

Time means nothing to You Father… but it’s everything to us.

For us time is a resource that is limited in quantity. Once spent it is gone.

And what’s more, we have no idea how much we have.

Maybe a prayer that is sensible for us would be You arouse in us something like a sense that we are like an hour glass, and at conception, filled with a certain amount, an unknown amount, of sand, and at conception, that sand begins an uninterrupted flow from full to empty.

Then further in our prayer, that we would perceive the value of each grain of sand. At the top of the glass each grain is available to be put to use in response to the opportunities in life and after passing through the bottleneck of the glass, spent and collecting at the bottom, they can represent a gain… or a loss… something worthy of their value or something not worthy of their value… and that You would grant as well a concern, even an urgency, that that gift of time be put to good use.

Father… would You do that please… we pray…

The opportunities are many and each has its cost in those grains of sand we will be spending. Each investment in one comes at a cost that limits what we can spend on another. Unwise spending results in loss that is hard to make up for, or bring to fruition what it could have been, maybe make it impossible to achieve it at all. Father… may we have a care… and may it motivate us to act.

Pleasing You Father… glorifying You… is our desire.

But we are dependent on You… and the only shame in this would be to think otherwise.

So we present ourselves to You… in our weakness and proclivity for unwise evaluating and decision making… and ask for that sense of the value You place on the precious gift of time You have give us…that we would value it as well.

We pray You would guide us to spend it down in the pursuit of opportunities that are worthy, according to Your standard of value and worthiness…  that our perception of that value and worth would not be dependent on the physical smallness or bigness of our action but that in our actions would be the spirit of loving You and loving our neighbor.

In Yeshua’s name we pray… Abba Dear Father…

Amen.