I don't know about you but I agree that watching the images coming out of Japan while spreading butter on my sprouted whole wheat toast is a little too much for my conscience. Giving money, yeah, but still feeling relentlessly guilty that certainly something more can be done.
Prayer as a tag-along-surrender-to-it-if-you-can-do-nothing-else or Prayer as a belief that we have been prepared and sent for "such a time is this"
Get ready is an understatement to the great vacumn that is opening not just overseas but HERE. God has plans and callings in US here while we butter our toast. We are foremost called to dwell in the MOMENT. Psalms calls us to be "He who dwells in the shadow of the Almighty".
The conversations are coming. The questions are coming. People are grappling with time and eternity while they pump their gas and wax their Toyatas. Why's are coming.
We must be ready always to give an answer for the HOPE that we have. Hope beyond this world and its offerings.
Out of these fires, both personal and wide world infernos, will come FAITH as we have never known it. A purified, purging faith that will rock the nations. Not for better days and happier times but a faith worth dying for. The Lord Jesus Christ who alone is the answer for the world.
Let us not shrink back at this time. But seize every opportuinity... to listen, To speak... But profoundly as Gerry said it - to be with them as they walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
-Shelle Graves
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