![]() Ps 51:13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,ĭavid’s asking God to cleanse his heart. Ps 51:12 Restore to me the joy of your salvationĪnd grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Ps 51:11 Do not cast me from your presence Ps 51:10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, He knows that God has every right to turn away from him – and ignore him – because of what he did. The quote below is from Psalms – a book that all who believe in and pray to the God of Abraham read. I have to tell you – if you believe this – you’re not alone. If you’re not praying to Him – I invite to you start.īut what if you are praying to the God of Abraham? Do you ever pray / talk to Him at other times? If so, do you really believe that He hears you? Do you really believe that He can do anything about your prayers? Or do you think that maybe He has no reason to listen to you – because you aren’t good enough? Or maybe this is the only time you pray – so you figure “Why should He listen?” This God – the God of Abraham that Paul is proclaiming – is the only One who actually hears your prayers and can do something about them. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you. 23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Maybe you’re like the people Paul encountered in Athens?Īc 17:22 Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. If you are praying, but not to the God of Abraham – is your prayer even directed to someone?Īnd what do you expect from them / him / her / it?Īre you like the humanist I saw – who clearly just said the words, but they had no meaning to him. If it’s not the Capital “G” God of Abraham – who is it? Presumably, given that the word prayer is used – these prayers are going out to “a god” of some sort. Thoughts just “going out” aren’t really directed at anyone. And a meaningless gesture to the recipients. Essentially, without belief in some sort of response to our thoughts and payers, it’s wasted breath on our part. Presumably good intentions, but with no expectation of any results. If we can’t honestly answer “yes” to both of them, then it’s just words. When we say, “our thoughts and prayers go out to you”, who are we sending them out to? Do we actually believe someone’s listening to them? Assuming the answer’s yes, do we also believe that someone can / will do something about them? The answers to those simple questions matter. Our thoughts and prayers go out, but to who? Time for an update after more years of life, lots more reading and research, and a whole lot more prayer about what I write. This morning I was wondering something similar about this phrase – “my thoughts and prayers go out”. Since then – I often wonder who is being addressed when someone talks about “God”. Until I saw they were working the humanist table. The person who was already at the table said to the new arrival – “Thank God you’re here!” Sounds good. It was the first week of classes – and all the fraternities, sororities and clubs were trying to recruit new members. One day when I arrived at work on a college campus, I saw someone walking over to a table to join someone who was already there. But who do those thoughts and prayers go out to? And to what end? As the recipient of those thoughts and prayers, do we care? Should we care? Actually, I believe we should. The lawmaker, who vowed to bring a vote on gun reform to the Senate floor, condemned Republicans who he said, “care more about the NRA.We hear it a lot – thoughts and prayers going out. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer denounced gun violence during an emotional speech on Capitol Hill Wednesday. So stop gaslighting me on that one, and stop saying that you can have a good guy stop a bad guy with a gun.” “There’s mental illness in every country in the world, and they don’t have this problem. Stop saying that mental illness is behind this,” she said. It’s guns that kill people, OK? Stop saying the opposite. Stop saying it’s not guns that kill people, it’s people that kill people. “I want them to stop gaslighting me also. We taught kids how to do more drills and we invented bullet proof backpacks." /1VUE4dNb0c- The View May 25, 2022 "What happened after Sandy Hook? We didn't pass legislation. "There is no reason why an 18-year-old should have access to weapons of war that can kill children in a matter of seconds."
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