A Call to Prayer and Humility

I was thinking about the people affected by the California wildfires this morning, thinking about how many have lost family homes and how children lost everything they knew about life. Regardless of their title or position, they lost everything. I saw numerous times on Facebook people putting laugh emojis on posts that were expressing sympathy for these people. I read posts by multiple people saying how they don’t feel sorry for them. This morning, I woke up with this on my heart and opened my phone to see how the progress was going. The people in CA are now facing potential landslides as one house, unaffected by the fire, was already split in two by a landslide. Here in WNC, I saw the devastative power of landslides. There is nothing you can do against them.

My question is… who do we think we are - assuming the role of God? What dangerous ground to be standing on to place blame and not pray for them on account of it! HE is the one who determines what we deserve and what we don’t. The scripture that popped up on my phone this morning said, “be compassionate and humble”, “not returning evil for evil or insult for insult but, on the contrary, giving a BLESSING, since you were called for this, so that you can inherit a blessing.” 1 Peter 3:9. Yes, Peter was speaking about believers. But might we continue assuming a whole region of people are not? “Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God concerning them is for their salvation!” Romans 10:1.

Please allow this to be a call to prayer, a call to humility, as we allow our hearts to be so full of what pleases the Lord that we want to be a light in the darkness that is ever growing.

Many states throughout our country have recently been affected by natural disasters as well as other countries. Let’s love them like Christ. Let’s pray not only for their salvation, but for their restoration. Let our attitudes and our words not affect the way someone else thinks thus manipulating their mindset and hindering their prayer. Let’s be that ‘two or more’ who stand in agreement. Trust me, there are far more than two! I want to be in that number when God scans the earth to find the faithful!