James 2:15-16 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?
When someone says “I’ll pray for you” one of my common internal reactions is a kind of sarcastic “that’s nice.” I suppose it’s because I often don’t believe that the person is really going to stop and spend any real time in prayer for me. What I hear in the statement is not “I’ll pray for you,” but rather “well, good luck with that.”
As I am honest with myself my cynical attitude is mostly addressed to my own inconsistency in following through on prayers for others and making prayers turn into concrete help.
Lord, continue to move me toward authentic living.
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