PRAY. FORGIVE. AND GO!

As I try to process all that has recently taken place and the fact that people can celebrate the assassination of a person who lived by his convictions with a life purpose of making the world a better place, brought me to the cross.

Jesus was publicly beaten, tortured, ridiculed, and spit on.

Many just stood there watching.

He hung on the cross with criminals on either side of him, with one of them hurling insults at him.

And many just stood there watching.

Even when rulers were sneering at him and when the soldiers mocked him.

Many just stood there watching.

In His deepest suffering, He didn’t respond with anger or judgment but with a prayer for their forgiveness.

His prayer wasn’t just for the soldiers and the crowd; it was for us, also.

As we recount the way Jesus suffered, don't forget that this evil is not new to the world.

It just hit home on a personal level. 

Instead of fighting evil the way the world does, we can live by the words of Christ. We are called to pray for our enemies and for those who persecute us, because they, more than anyone, need Jesus.

Prayer is a powerful weapon

and

so

is

FORGIVENESS.

So we can either stand by watching, scrolling, commenting…or humble ourselves on our knees, pray for our country, those around us and do the work our Lord Jesus commissioned us to do. 

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”~ Matthew 28:19-20

In the flesh we can’t do this, only through the Holy Spirit can we do the supernatural. 

We will always need Jesus!