The Word of God for wisdom:
Proverbs 25:21-22 (HCSB)
21 If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;
22 for you will heap burning coals on his head, and the LORD will reward you.
The Word of God for inspiration:
Psalm 88:1-2 (HCSB)
1 LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out before You day and night.
2 May my prayer reach Your presence; listen to my cry.
The Word of God for encouragement:
1 Timothy 2:1-6 (HCSB)
1 First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone,
2 for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.
3 This is good, and it pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, Himself human,
6 who gave Himself—a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time.
My observation:
The keyword for today is prayer. How appropriate that the Lord would engineer it so that the priority of prayer would come the morning after the second presidential debate last night. It gets even better; to have the featured Psalm be the saddest Psalm in the Psalter. However, even in the depths of his sadness and sorrow; the psalmist still had enough faith in God to pray.
At the time that Paul made this appeal to God's people to pray; they did not have a very friendly face in the government. Nero was no friend of the believers.
Our hope should not be in the government. Rather, our hope should be in God. Our hope and our help should come from the Lord, and not from the government.
Our prayers to God should follow the model that Paul sets out in his letter to Timothy. Let's align our expectations of government to have a more limited role in our life; we don't need the government to be our savior; we already have a Savior, and he is Christ Jesus our Lord.
My prayer:
Our Father in heaven, my dear Father, I pray that you will unite and strengthen your people; please direct our hearts to look up to you, and not to the government to meet all of our needs. Father, I thank you that you are a promise-keeping God. In Jesus name, Amen.
Philippians 4:19 (HCSB)
19 And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Psalm 55:22 (HCSB)
22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
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1 Peter 5:7 (HCSB)
7 casting all your care on Him, because He cares about you.
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