Y’all get ready for some fire lightin’: there’s some loving anger coming your way.
I am up to *HERE* with your gutless prayers. If all yer gonna do is bow your head, lace your fingers, close your eyes, and moan on for a minute about…WHATEVER, in response to the state of the country right now; then go back to your dinner, your “Wheel of Fortune,” or sittin’ on your lazy butt and expecting GOD to take care of all of it while you cross stitch or sudoku, well, you can keep ‘em. Stuff ‘em in your censer and smoke those spineless, lifeless, GODLESS prayers. YOU HEARD ME. “OH ME, AMEN! HE’S USIN’ CAPS LOCK NOW” Just save your whispering breath. God, or howEVer you choose to see the cohesion of the universe, is LIFE. In prayer there is ACTION. A prayer without action is DEAD. Which means that a prayer without action has NO GOD IN IT. Y’hear me?! I’ve had it taught to me over and over and over in Sunday School, in sermons, in the Good Book itself. “Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.” You’ll find that in James.
Love that book. Strong title. Book of James, chapter 2, verse 17.
Yeah, I Googled it. Judge me.
I banish your impotent prayers to the devil’s hell, the MTA and the DMV. That’s where they belong. Keep ‘em. If they’re offered for nothing more than to appease a world hindered by people plagued with fear, anger, and echoing caverns of loneliness and distress by doing ABSO-LUTELY NOTHING except delaying your own action, I suggest you just shut your mouth.
HOWEVER: if you’re willing to follow up your mouthful of righteous supplication with some aggressive open-mindedness; some blood, sweat and tears; some listening and some honest-to-goodness LOVING, then by all means—ask for wisdom. Request some tolerance. Beg the All-Knowing for understanding and a solution. “It’s a people problem, not a gun problem.” Then Lord Jesus God, universe, Allah, however you find your strength to continue—please grant me the knowing of how to make a difference or lend a hand to the next person that has the power to make a change.
Good GRIEF, I love y’all. But we have GOT to take up our own burden to make this better.