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Obviously people have been driving, and i’m sure praying about it for a long time. However no matter what the subject, when it comes to prayer some people need a little help with the words. For just that reason I wrote this short simple prayer several years ago.

Get me where I need to be, without accident, incident, or interruption. I ask this of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, with overflowing gratitude for all that I have received before. Amen !

There are three things I want to point out to you about my little prayer,

It acknowledges Christ as the personal savior of the person praying. This is important because it is Christ’s command that we pray for our needs, which gives this or any prayer its authority.

It also calls to attention that many different things can befall us on our daily journeys.

Lastly it expresses gratitude for what has already been given. This to me is a very important teaching point. I believe would have much better prayer lives if we would make a habit out of asking out of gratitude. We should do a better job of being grateful for those things we have already been given. We should be just as grateful, in advance for the things we are asking for.

I hope you will pray my little prayer often. May Almighty God always be with you, as you travel along your daily journeys.

Robert A. Crutchfield is president of Kingdom Relationship Ministries. He is a minister, public speaker, and success relationships coach. he is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors, The Good News Web Developer’s Association, and the True Grace Ministries Gospel Minister’s Association. Visit him often at http://www.kingdomrelationships.org.

“Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land
of Canaan.” (Bereishit - Chapter 37:1)

Rashi explains that when Jacob sought to dwell in tranquility,
the troubles of Joseph sprang upon him. The righteous seek to
dwell in tranquility but said the Holy One, blessed be He, “What
is prepared for the righteous in the world to come is not
sufficient for them, but they seek also to dwell in tranquility
in this world!”

Rav Yerucham Levovitz, the great pre-WWII Mirrer mashgiach asks
a difficult question. Which type of tranquility did Jacob
desire? Surely, it was not tranquility in our terms. Jacob was
requesting a life of hard work and self-sacrifice for Torah and
mitzvoth. During the fourteen years that he served in the house
of Eber, he did not lie down at night, because he was engaged in
Torah study. (Gen. Rabbah 68:11) What was so terrible about
requesting this sort of tranquility? He was only asking to not
be oppressed by Laban or pursued by Eisav. What in truth was
wrong with Jacob’s desire?

The answer is, that tribulations, difficulties and problems are
the essential makeup of this this world. Hashem desires that we
learn Torah and perform the mitvoth within the “smelting pot” of
the tribulations in this world. It is only the mitvoth which are
done under difficult circumstances which can lead us to
greatness, purity and eventually the next word.

The house of Laban was the furnace which purified Jacob. When
Jacob had to work another seven years to marry Rachel the
Medrash compares the other ones to the first ones. Just as he
worked for him during the first ones faithfully, so did he work
for him during the other ones faithfully, even though Laban had
dealt with him deceitfully. (Gen. Rabbah 70:20) Living amidst
the lies, idol worship and lusts of Lavan brought Jacob to even
greater heights.

The Medrash Rabbah, Numbers 19:1 explains that the purity of the
next word actually comes forth from the impurity of this
world.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Is it not the
One? (Job XIV, 4) For example, Abraham out of Terah; Hezekiah
out of Ahaz; Josiah out of Amon; Mordecai out of Shimei; Israel
out of the idolaters; the future world out of this world. Who
did this? Who commanded this? Who decreed this? Was it not the
world’s Only One?

It is both important and helpful to understand that this world
is overflowing with troubles, aggregation, hardships and filth.
Our portion in the next world of illumination and purity is
dependent on how we handle our things here. It is the next world
where we will receive our true tranquility.

As Iyov 3:25 states - I was not at ease, neither was I quiet,
and I did not rest, yet trouble came.