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Sigh……sigh…..The distress that man regularly causes me fills my brain so full of words that it creates a verbal bottleneck that leaves me speechless.
Let me share the only thing I know that eases my mental angst, but it is strange, and understand it certainly isn’t for everyone. Speaking as a follower of Jesus, every time thoughts of him disturb me, I close my eyes, take a few deep breaths and pray (with clear understanding of what I am asking):
“God! Open his mind. Open his eyes. Open his heart.”
This is no simple, mind-calming mantra. It is a clear request that God do these things, drawing Bobo to Himself and revealing to him the raw, unfiltered truth of who he is, the true consequences of his actions, and how he will have to answer to the Almighty.
It could almost be interpreted as a vengeful prayer, for this kind of revelation would either destroy him, break him, or could initiate another Damascus Road event; after all, with God’s intervention Saul did become Paul and Jesus said in Acts 9:16 “I will show him how much he must suffer for My name!”
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Actually, I don’t think it sounds vengeful at all. The best thing we can wish for anyone is that he will see the truth, and allow it to change him. I have something similar I do whenever I’m stuck in traffic and see cars with Obama bumper stickers on them: I pray for that person to have the scales fall from his eyes. Yes, it will be painful — no one likes finding out he’s been a fool — but it’s the necessary first step toward recovery. (The way I figure it, they’re all going to discover the truth some day, one way or another, and whenever it happens, it’s going to hurt — probably a lot. The sooner it happens, the sooner it will be over with!)
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Wish I could click thumbs up more than once on each of these!! We have all been educated ad nauseum about the importance of addicts hitting bottom, seeing themselves as they really are, etc.
Praying for Obama-philes is praying for INTERVENTION. It’s not vengeful at all. It’s the most loving thing anyone could want for someone who is suffering but doesn’t realize it.
Would you give a person with a raging tooth infection a tube of OraJel or would you do your darnedest to get them to a dentist, knowing the infection could not just cost a tooth, but move into the blood stream and maim or kill?
We’re talking soul death from the disease that is Progressivism. Better to kill the body than to lose the soul to eternal damnation.
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A meeting of kindred minds! What sweet relief to find others who understand…and act. I would rather he came the horrific realization of what he has done, NOW, while he lives, than for him to stand before the penetrating eyes of the ultimate Father and KNOW what he did and that there is no remedy, and that his punishment as a leader will be even greater. I would NOT want to be in those shoes.
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Plus … if he and his peers have such stony hearts that our prayers just bounce off them, I believe they never go to waste. There’s plenty who have noone to pray for them who can benefit from any prayers we say for people who refuse to receive.
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I completely agree with you and I like the idea of praying for those other people as well. It is good to see I am not the only one praying for my “enemies”! 😉
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Likewise — they definitely need all the prayers they can get!
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Certainly not the only one, LoR. We all need to pray for our enemies. The best possible outcome is the one precipitated by a change of heart and not by the destruction of the idiots. It’s a blessed thing when prayer can bring that about.
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Amen to that.
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Matthew 18:20. Hallelujah!
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“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” … One of the things I love best about the PoliNations Garden. 🙂
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