Most days at some point in the morning, I listen to Lectio 365. It’s a devotional app which has a new message each morning and evening. At the end of every morning session, there is the closing prayer which asks each member of the Trinity to help one live a life honoring God and treating others kindly.
Recently, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, was the reader for a week. When he prayed the closing prayer he changed one word.
Instead of asking each member of the Trinity to help, he asked Them to “enable”.
The shift was subtle to me but important. When I ask God to help me do something, I am at the center, it is what work I am engaged in. When I ask God to enable me to do something, there is a subtle shift from me at the center to God at the center. Enabling brings me into God’s work rather than God into my work. The source of my strength isn’t from me with a little help from God. Rather the source of my strength is from God’s strength.
I go out from Him, to do His work, that He created and designed for me.
Joy.
Just Sayin' 