Friday, October 4, 2002
Friday, October 4, 2002
Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that
you may be healed. The prayer of the righteous is powerful and effective.
The old man thought for a moment and said, "I pray for health, for happiness, and for peace in
my land."
"I see," said the reporter. "You don't look that healthy. Are you happy?"
"Not really," said the man.
"And your homeland is in turmoil. Do you really believe your prayers are heard?"
The man nodded and replied, "Sometimes it's like talking to a wall."
Mature Christians can acknowledge that sometimes prayer is like talking to a wall. Sometimes
we pray with great pain and anguish. We want an answer. We want it now. But the answer we
want does come at least no answer that satisfies us. We may ask, "Where is God? Does He
care?"
Of course, God does hear us, and God does answer all of our prayers. God knows what is
best for us, so we may not get the answer we want but the answer we need.
(James 5.16
NRSV)
There was a television news team that was taping at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall. Every day they
saw the same elderly man praying, morning, noon, and night beside that famous structure. On
their last day they got curious and asked him, "What is it you pray for so fervently?"
Lord Jesus, be with me in the pain of life, and thank you for giving me what I really need.
Amen.
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