Sacredise - Prayer: Wild God

Wild God

by John van de Laar

It seems to us that things would be much easier
   if you would just do what we ask, Jesus;
If you were more compliant and co-operative,
   more flexible and adaptable,
   more open to follow agendas other than your own;

But, frustratingly, you refuse to be tamed, Jesus;
   you won't be domesticated into leaving our brokenness untouched,               undisturbed,
        unruffled;
   No – you prod and provoke,
        unafraid of the pain it might cause us,
        of the comfort we may have to relinquish.

You are a Wild God, Jesus, and we are afraid of such a God,
   but we choose to praise you anyway,
        because a domesticated deity,
        a tame grace is not what we need;
   You are a Wild God, and we praise you that you are,
        because any other God would be unworthy of the name.

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