Written by Jonathan Melton
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NRSV) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Those who engage the church’s rhythm of morning and evening prayer (also known as the Daily Office) discover that all those small acts aggregate into one massively significant proclamation: “Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.”
My only job, the only thing I ought to be about, is proclaiming the glory and joy of the holy and undivided Trinity. It is very easy to forget this most important fact about my vocation. No sooner do I pray to be a person of peace than I am swearing at the copier or lamenting spotty wireless—as if the astonishing and animating Trinity depends in any real way upon those amenities.
I hope to be about the glorification of God, especially in the midst of ordinary life. The writer of Proverbs would have us believe that to acknowledge and proclaim the goodness of God is to be shown ways around all the obstacles that may beset us, making straight our path into the kingdom.
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