Prayer Symbol
Having Peace, Strength And Wisdom In Life
Are you aware of the serenity prayer? Have you got any idea how powerful that prayer is? This prayer is ideal for those people who are seeking peace, strength and wisdom in life. There is an article I've read that mentions about serenity prayer. This article mentioned about the drug addicts who still find it hard to renew their lives. The author of the article named John-Ross Boyce mentioned, "There's an old prayer in rehabilitation centers to help bolster the downtrodden spirits of drug addicts and alcoholics. It goes, "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." Addicts have these things called "triggers" situations or problems that drive them to consume unhealthy amounts of alcohol/crack/horse tranquilizers. The whole point of the Serenity Prayer is that the problems which plague you may have fix or not, but that does not matter. What really matters is your attitude when confronted with your daily demons."
We can see, Serenity Prayer is something that a person must pray to God in times they really need strength to conquer the struggles in life. Thus, we should be aware that in each and every prayer, we should put that into action. This prayer guides us to do things to solve our problems in life; not only wait for God to respond to your prayers and do nothing. All of us must have the desire and courage to help make everything possible to happen since we are able to control on our own body. We should not wait for God's signal for us to do something; we should have faith and trust in Him that He will be with us in times we are in trouble.
Sometimes people blame God if their prayers usually are not answered. But have you ask yourself if you did your best to help make those prayers happen? This article authored by John Boyce is all about his personal opinion that we have problems that may be easily fix; we just have to put this into action. If someone is fat, and he or she wants to drop some weight, this individual should do the best that he or she can to drop some weight; exercise is the solution for this. If you're a chain smoker and you just want to give up smoking, to stop certainly is the solution for that. If you aren't contented with your boyfriend or girlfriend and you just think it is no longer working anymore, to end your relationship is a solution for that. If you find your exam is very difficult, to study hard is the solution for that.
There are also problems that you cannot easily overcome. This is when Serenity prayer works for you. You actually are asking God to provide you with grace to just accept with serenity the things which you can't change, courage to change things that you should change as well as wisdom to distinguish one from the other.
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will direct your paths." Proverbs 3, 5-6