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Monday, June 13, 2005
Watch (Out) and Pray
Be careful what you pray for.
One time, Jesus stopped right in the middle of some miracles and took a good long look at the crowd. Then he almost lost it.
He turned to his disciples and said, "These people are in a bad way. They're harassed and helpless, like a bunch of sheep who've lost their shepherd." And his heart broke.
Then he said, "So you guys pray for them. Ask God to send people to help them. Ask God for a whole lot of people to sign on as God's helpers in helping them."
The story is in Matthew 9:35-38. Check it out. But keep reading into chapter 10. Something really interesting happens there.
First, Matthew names the twelve disciples. (There will not be a quiz.) Then he says that Jesus sent them out to do the same kind of miracles he'd been doing. And to preach the same message he'd been preaching.
In other words, he was making them the answer to their own prayers!
For some reason I'm reminded of how I began praying for this really nice girl when I was a college sophomore. Why not? I wanted God to bless her, to take good care of her, and -- just maybe -- to make her want to pray for me too.
Well, that sweet young thing and I will celebrate our 43rd(!) wedding anniversary next month. With all we've been through, I'm not sure either one of us would have kept praying for the other way back then. But I am sure we each more or less answered our own prayers when caring turned to loving, and loving led to marriage.
What have you been praying for lately? Who have you been praying for?
Be careful! Disciple, sophomore, or somewhere in between, it's pretty well guaranteed -- when you get up off your knees you'll soon be on the road with God.
You'd better pray with your shoes on.
posted by Jack Buckley at
9:45 AM
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