Wilderness Journey

ASK

I am an empty vessel. Fill me, Lord!

I was a broken vessel. You healed me, Lord!

I am in the desert, lost, empty, waiting for You to fill me.

How did I get here?

Did I take a wrong road?

I feel so alone.

My strength fails me, yet I know You are with me, right beside me.

You have been there all through my life.

You have saved me from destruction and pulled me out of the pit more than one time.

SEEK

I am looking, I feel Your presence – just out of reach.

I have left no stone unturned yet I have not found You.

I must be looking in the wrong places.

I want to find the place where You are everywhere.

I feel compelled to keep working, to keep looking, to keep striving.

I feel exhausted. My enemies are laughing and saying, “Where is your God?”

I am an empty vessel, cast out in the desert.

KNOCK

Where is the door?

I want to enter in.

What in me is preventing this?

I’ve been to the secret place but I seem to have lost my way.

I want to come back.

I am knocking. You have promised to open the door.

Open the door of my heart.

Enter, Lord, You are welcome, desired, craved.

I am an unworthy, empty vessel. Fill me, Lord!

Without You, I cannot exist.

I do not trust second-hand knowledge: so many things can interfere.

I need first-hand experience.

I need to walk in Your garden.

I see Your garden gate. I am knocking.

Please open it.

My heart is breaking. I need You.

I surrender, Lord. Your will, not mine.

RAIN

A deluge is transforming the desert!

I am an empty vessel, buoyant, carried by the flood of Your grace.

I am a once-empty vessel, overflowing with Your love.

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