When My Husband Prays...

Good morning, Lord! Lord, I come to you this morning asking for strength to stay committed to you no matter the cost. Lord, I think about the commitment you showed the Father when he told you the plan he had for you to achieve my salvation. I remember you going to the garden and praying so hard if he could come up with another way and remove this cup from you and how you stressed and prayed so hard that you sweat blood! God, I think about how you were so committed to the plan that you had your Son carry his cross up a hill to be mutilated by a bunch of people who were so religious and so stuck in the past that they couldn’t see or hear you in the new thing. Lord, we live in a time like when you walked the earth telling people you were the Son of God and they needed to Repent, turn from their wicked ways, and follow you! Well, it hasn’t changed much; people still think the commitment to you is saying your name like you are a genie in a bottle and that they are not responsible for doing anything! Lord, I think of my own life, that every time you’ve told me to do something, it has required something of me. Lord, I look at marriages and how 50% of ALL marriages end in divorce, Christian and non-Christian! God, I think about all those that say they are believers but never think of reading your word. Lord, you call that ignorance! Lord, I think about all those you’ve told to do something specific, but they haven’t yet and only made excuses for why you haven’t done it for them. Lord, you call that disobedience! Lord, let me never get the welfare mentality and think that serving God is when I let You do everything for me, and I never have to keep my commitment to You! 

Lord, I think of every good thing in my life that you have given me or allowed me to have, and I remember it required something of me. The recipe requires much hard work, mixed with much faith, blended up with many sacrifices, sprinkled with tons of naysayers, rolled out on a cutting board with a heavy roller, and beat with a tenderizer for a time plus a time, then placed in an oven set to a temperature of hot as Hell for an extended time! Lord, this recipe is hard to find all the ingredients to and hard to mix, but in the end, it produces the best dish of COMMITMENT a Christian could ever want! Lord, I thank you that you never promised commitment would be easy, but it would be worth it! Thank you, Father, for a recipe that takes much work but produces a beautiful product. May I always do the things you ask in this relationship to be fully committed to your will and not mine? In Jesus' name, I pray! Amen!----Jeff West