Today's Thought - Ironic cost

Sunday 18 November, 2007 subscribe | unsubscribe | respond | prayer | archive

Ironic cost

Prayer impacts so much from the start that when you pray for others, it may cost them dearly.

Jesus prayed for His disciples,

"I pray for them … For they are yours,’

(John 17:9)

and if you read what happened to all His closest followers, you are not impressed with soft outcomes. At every crisis, God seems to do the unbearable and allow life to get worse.

Something about this appeals to my ironic sense of humour. When He told me to pray for my persecutors, was He telling me life would get worse for them?

Or maybe He is telling me that if my own life seems bad at the moment and every turn just makes it worse, it is because someone is praying for me.

So when I pray for you I always ask that you will have the strength to bear the answer.

“Please pray, I for you and you for me –

pray without ceasing.”

1 Thessalonians 5:17

It may cost us both dearly but we will agree through all eternity,
we would not have missed it for anything.