The weekend arrives with garage sales (there's one just across the street this morning), relaxation, yard work, and shopping. Maybe you have access to none of that stuff and the weekend is but one or two more days in the work week. Times are tough for many of us. When we are knocked down and have not yet seen a way to get back up, what is our next step? We may feel the desire to make a big step, and something like the lottery may seem the way to go. However, most of the time our Lord leads us to a little step. Prayer seems so obvious when looking back on the situation, but then it also seems like the thing we were doing all the way down to that flat-on-the-back position we are looking up from. How will more of the same help? Perhaps a simple prayer of acknowledging our need for help when nothing else seems available is our next little step. Yes, just one more prayer: Thank you, dear Lord, for where I am in this situation. Please show me the next little step after this one.
Our steps often do not fulfill our desire for the big win, the home run, or the long drive. We may be so far down that after a little prayer, our next step may be to just wait a bit more. To use a golf analogy, which for some odd reason just popped into my mind, we might need to reach out and pluck one little blade of grass before we can get up, select a club, and attempt a big swing. We may even need God's help in the reaching so far down are we in this situation. Of course, we are not always that far down, but someone you know may be there right now. We pray for each other not just on the normal days that have their own share of ups and downs, but on those days when they too find themselves flat on the back in some situation. Life may be just grand for you or me right now. Praise God! Let us take some time to pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ. One of them probably needs our prayer help right about now.
Bucky
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