Stop, Drop, and Act
We got a card in the mail with these very words in bold letters across the top. It came from the local community theatre where my wife and kids have acted in several plays and musicals over the past year. But it made me think about our spiritual walk with God.
We rush into life, headlong, often without stopping to contemplate the consequences or the seriousness of our actions. We see something that we think needs to be done, or we are assigned a task, or we are faced with a challenge, or we see something that we really want to do, and so we do the first thing that comes into our heads to try and tackle the situation – often with disastrous results. Instead, we should stop and drop to our knees in prayer, like Daniel did every day, three times a day, in Daniel chapter 6. There are so many situations we cannot, and should not, face alone. Even our Savior, Jesus, often went out alone to pray to gain the strength and wisdom and guidance he needed to accomplish the task set out before him. Paul told the Thessalonians to pray continually. 1 Thessalonians 5:17.
Our challenge is always the same – pray hard. I recently bought my son one of those rubber wrist bands with that slogan on it as a reminder to him and to me that we can never pray enough. We need to constantly stop what we are doing, drop to our knees and petition the Father for aid, comfort, wisdom and direction before we act.
We rush into life, headlong, often without stopping to contemplate the consequences or the seriousness of our actions. We see something that we think needs to be done, or we are assigned a task, or we are faced with a challenge, or we see something that we really want to do, and so we do the first thing that comes into our heads to try and tackle the situation – often with disastrous results. Instead, we should stop and drop to our knees in prayer, like Daniel did every day, three times a day, in Daniel chapter 6. There are so many situations we cannot, and should not, face alone. Even our Savior, Jesus, often went out alone to pray to gain the strength and wisdom and guidance he needed to accomplish the task set out before him. Paul told the Thessalonians to pray continually. 1 Thessalonians 5:17.
Our challenge is always the same – pray hard. I recently bought my son one of those rubber wrist bands with that slogan on it as a reminder to him and to me that we can never pray enough. We need to constantly stop what we are doing, drop to our knees and petition the Father for aid, comfort, wisdom and direction before we act.
“...in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Philippians 4:6
posted by Carl Wheeler at 7:45 AM
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