“I will be praying for you.”  We are known to say that when we are talking to someone who is going through a rough spot.  It is something that we, at least I know that I have, say pretty easily and flippantly to let someone know that we care about them.  “I will be thinking about you” or “you’re in our thoughts and prayers.”  What does that mean?  What is it that you are committing to do?  Is that supposed to make the recipient of those words feel better?  Why is it that it sometime takes a hard place in our own lives to realize how empty those words can be?  I know that people pray!  I was talking to Joe Dunbar one time about this very thing and Joe told me that if he tells someone that he is going to pray for them that immediately after saying the words , he prays for that person.  That’s good.  Joe did exactly what he said he would do.  I am asking do we get under the burden of that difficulty and truly pray for that person?  Do you ask God to bring them to remembrance from time to time so that you can pray for them?  Do you put their name on a list that you will see to prompt you to pray for them?  

I have a book that I have shared with several people titled The Red Sea Rules that God has used to help me through some pretty tough times.  The whole book is based around the truth of the same God who led you in will lead you out.  It’s focus is on the lessons that can be learned around the Israelite nation being led out of Egypt to the shores of the Red Sea with the raging Egyptians closing in on them.  In one spot the author says this:  “Our whole perspective changes when, finding ourselves in a hard place, we realize the Lord has either placed us there or allowed us to be there, perhaps for reasons presently known only to Himself.”  Read that again and let it sink in. Do you suppose that that truth might change the way you pray?  If you knew, if you believed, that the circumstances that you currently are in were ordered or allowed by the sovereign and providential hand of God, would it change the way you pray?  Would it change the way you react to what it is that you are facing?  There is not one thing that happens in your life or mine that is outside of ever-loving hand of God.  

We have all heard of the horrors of Covid-19, and God has as well.  I am not going to be stupid and reckless as I take this journey, but I sure am thankful that God walks with Robbi and I and He will give us the grace and mercy needed to endure.  Thanks for praying for us.  We will be praying for you too.

Jerry & Robbi