Here’s
a fun anecdote from The Church front.
Last Sunday we got word that one of our regulars, who happened to be in
San Antonio for the weekend, was in the hospital there for treatment of kidney
stones. Bob has had that issue several
times before, so as his Body of Christ we lifted him up in prayer last
week. Just the Church being the Church,
right? So far so good.
This
week Bob was back, and he had a story to tell.
Seems it was not him who was having the issues with kidney stones. Instead it was his 20-year-old grandson, who
was also recovering from a major surgery on his arm. Yikes.
So here are the questions we faced this week …
Did
we need to ask God to ignore last week’s intercessions, kind of “Oops, never
mind”? In other words, were all those
prayers last week wasted? Bob doesn’t
think so. He’ll take every prayer he can
get, and I’m sure with him on that one.
In the proverbial words of the playground, “No take-backs.”
Did
we need to maybe ask God to put those last prayers on a celestial transfer list
like switching money between accounts at the bank? Take them off of Bob’s ledger and reapply
them to Seth’s? I don’t know. Somehow treating the ear of God like a bank
ledger just doesn’t seem quite right.
Neither
of those options felt exactly right.
Honestly, I think we would be better served taking the approach we
finally decided upon. And what would
that be?
Joining
God and Bob (and maybe even Seth when he
feels a little better) in a little divine chuckle about the whole thing,
and moving on to the next “person of interest,” the next point of intercession
that opens up to us. Keep those prayers
coming.
Psalms
69:34 says, “Let heaven and earth praise
him, the seas and all that move in them”
Father,
be with Seth and Bob as they deal with their kidney stone issues. And thanks for laughing with us
yesterday. Amen.
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