All We Can Do Now Is Pray

 This year has really challenged the notion: “all we can do now is pray”... when we couldn’t be with a friend in the hospital, we could only pray. When we couldn’t gather as a Body, we could pray. When we didn’t have the opportunity to celebrate weddings, lives well lived, and accomplishments... we could pray. When hearts were hurting and buildings were burning, we could pray.  When one month became one year, we could pray.... but did we? 

Did this year of change and frustration grow our belief and faith in the power of prayer? Did we choose to surrender our goals, our timelines, our dreams, our careers, our families to Him? Or did we long for the days to come when we could gain back the tight grasp we have had on all these aspects of our lives for so long? 

Have you found yourself more often on your phone or in the Word? Have you allowed your heart to feel the burden of the world while simultaneously freeing yourself of the urge to control and manipulate situations and circumstances to feel better?

Heavy. Hard. Tiring. Exhausting. Frustrating. Sad. Lonely. Depressing. Failure. Heartache. Loss. Unstable. Confusing. Divisive. 

When we look back over this past year, have we grown or have we floundered... when all we had left to do was pray? Have we risen to the calling the Lord has placed on us or have we allowed the circumstances to inundate our thoughts and reduce our faith in Jesus with inadvertently strengthening our faith in an ever-changing immoral culture and society? 

I find myself looking to the clouds now more than ever, anxiously awaiting my Jesus’ return. Come, Lord Jesus, come soon. 

Until then, I choose to pray. In the successes and failures 2020 has brought. If now is not the time for the Church to wake up and stand up, we won’t ever know what is! Let’s not miss this! Let’s not be found sleeping as we have for so long. 

Hearts are open, many with gaping wounds; let’s facilitate and illuminate the healing salt and light to them! Let us be found saying with  great delight and expectancy “all we can do now is pray!”.