Lazaroo – Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Jul 31, 2012 I Lazaroo.
Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, with bottomless trust:
“No king, however great and mighty, has ever asked such a thing of any magician or enchanter or astrologer.”
(Daniel 2:10)
I’ve seen it more than once, Jesus:
The bigger the problem
the more desperate the leader.
That’s how
magicians
enchanters
astrologers
get a leg up.
Intelligent leaders have always known these people are bogus
but a sufficiently desperate leader
sometimes parks her brain at the curb
and lets a
slick-talking
big-promising
stranger climb in.
Am I pulling the same stunt in any area of my life, Father?
Where am I so desperate
for something I want
to escape something I don’t want
to make something happen
that I’m losing confidence
in Your timing
in Your love for me
laying my Bible aside
giving up on prayer
abandoning my God-given good sense?
If that’s happening, please show me
so I can eject these fast-talking phonies
from my life.
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Exodus 20:3-6; Exodus 34:14; Deuteronomy 6:13-15; 2 Kings 17:35-36; Psalms 44:20-21; Psalms 81:9-10; Jeremiah 1:16-16; 2 Corinthians 11:1-4; James 4:4-10
Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.