If My People Will Humble Themselves and Pray
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." I love that verse (II Chronicles 7:14), but it's quoted so often it almost sounds trite. Then I go to the annual Pastors Prayer Summit sponsored by Concerts of Prayer Greater New York and remember that our cliche is God's truth. There's depth and power in those words. The last couple of days we reflected on Psalm 63, which David wrote while running from his son Absalom in the desert of Judah ("worship"). Read it. It's good. One comical sidebar from the Summit. The house where I stayed was appx 3 miles from the retreat center (Tuscarora Inn at Pennsylvania's Delaware Water Gap). Last night Adam Durso of Youth Explosion and I dropped of my parents at the house and left to return to the main campus. We were spending time together trying to figure out how to revolutionize the world, when we made a wrong turn and got lost. A drive that should have taken no more than 10 minutes took over an hour. We finally found it after stumbling upon a bar in a random country village. One of the patrons leaving the bar (with empty bear bottles on the counter) offered to guide us back. Said he was going that way. There are so many spiritual metaphors in our humbling little journey that it's scary.
posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 1/26/2005 01:04:00 PM
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