Pain and hardship will certainly cause us to pray; sometimes even more than our needs and wants. But why do we continue finding ourselves in hard places, difficult places, even addicted places? We experience pain and hardship because we live in a broken world, and in an unseen war where there is an “evil one” against us. What do we do? The fourth way Jesus told us to pray is found in Matthew 6:13, and that is to “lead not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
Jesus’ extravagant love FOR us requires extravagant love FROM us.
You can’t have your best us without kindness.
We defeat inadequacy by, like David, deciding to do what only we can do and using what God has given us.
