Good Thursday morning! No sunshine this morning, only clouds to see in our sky. What is at the center this morning? Is it your job, family, friends, the economy, our government, news events around the world, or is it God who occupies the center of your thoughts? I have noticed that finding someone to pray for is quite easy when reading a newspaper these days. On every page of a news website or a newspaper one can find a person hurt, or jobs lost, or a calamity of some sort; people to pray for are all over the news. Christians everywhere have the privilege of bringing many before God in prayer. While it may not be good to immerse yourself in all of the news reports each day, each of us might take the time to pick out one person we don't know in the news and pray for that person for a day. Perhaps a company or a nation is more to your calling, pray for a group of people for a day. We often focus on our powerlessness or weakness in this world. Let us instead take up prayer for someone and focus on our Almighty God. The Creator of all that we can see has not left the world on its own.
We know from our own lives that God is still in control, and we know that He lets everyone make his or her own decisions too. How can both of those go on at the same time? I don't know, but I cannot understand all of the thoughts of God. I am glad that God's thoughts are as far above my own as the heavens are above the earth. The world seems very dark to us, and indeed the means to carry out the end times are almost in place, but the light of Jesus still shines into this darkness. Trust in God to take care of you and me, and take everything to Him in prayer.
Bucky
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