Always pray.
Never give up.
Especially in your cry for justice.
You do pray for justice don't you?
Pray for the underdog.
Pray for the poor.
Pray for students in Title I schools.
Pray for widows and orphans and immigrants.
Day and Night.
Jesus spoke the parable of the persistent widow to a group of downtrodden people - people who needed hope that the world they were living in would be restored and that God would wipe out the inequity and injustice.
She - the widow in his story - broke all protocols and cultural values in order to get what she wanted - what was right.
I hope you add praying for justice to your circle of prayer.
When you witness things that are not right, pray persistently and fervently.
When power abuses, pray.
When you read the paper, or watch the news, I hope it draws you to prayer. I hope you get angry at the evil - the injustice and this holy anger prompts you to move.
True craziness is inviting the homeless to your birthday party or deciding that Christmas is not your birthday. It's sponsoring children and cutting back on eating out. It's buying the used car so you can give more away to build a well in Uganda or taking a Saturday to volunteer at the food ministry or homeless shelter.
You fill in the blank.
Some day all the messes will get cleaned up. Until that day, we've got some praying to do and some work to do.
Keep drawing circle.
2 comments:
getting a little overwhelmed with all the things to pray for...does that make sense?
I think it is important to develop a "system." I mentioned this in an earlier post - that I am still searching. Like a day for international needs, co-workers (students), church, etc.) I'm going to do some research now. Because it can become overwhelming - the world is filled with needs. I also think that as we move further into the experiment that God will call us to focus - He'll give us a love/passion for certain people/ministries/areas.
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