It is almost midnight and I'm sitting on my computer "unwinding" for a few minutes. After a busy day with a pretty sick kid I need a few minutes to myself before I can go to sleep. But as I sit here my mind reels with the thoughts of so many people I know who are going through a lot of transition in life, big and small... Only it seems to me that there are more big transitions than small and a lot of these people are leaders among their peers and so it seems that the support for some has been pulled out from under them... After all, who supports the legs of the table when they get tired? 

I don't know... I can't help but wonder what God has in store for all of these people when there are so many attacks from Satan that are so evident and seem to be happening all at the same time. I have never really known a situation that seemed so individually collective. I know that sounds contradictory but I can't list out everyone's situations because that would be bad form, I think. But I can tell you that out of 10 families I know in Portland alone, all of them are facing serious personal transition let alone the transition that most churches are going through and the transition in some of their jobs, which affects half of those families. I'm talking about serious illness, economic insecurity, emotional turmoil, loss of loved ones, spiritual starvation and overwhelming depression. 

At first I didn't know why I was writing about this, but it just occurred to me. Please be in prayer for people around you, for yourself, for your ministers and leaders. Please be on your knees for your family: your parents, your husband or wife, your kids, your friends. Please ask the Lord for guidance and security in your faith, your relationships, your health and your job. And think of those around you, that they too can benefit from the power of the Almighty God.

Psalm 3

A psalm of David, regarding the time David fled from his son Absalom.

 1 O Lord, I have so many enemies;

      so many are against me.

 2 So many are saying,

      “God will never rescue him!”

                         

 3 But you, O Lord, are a shield around me;

      you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.

 4 I cried out to the Lord,

      and he answered me from his holy mountain.

                       

 5 I lay down and slept,

      yet I woke up in safety,

      for the Lord was watching over me.

 6 I am not afraid of ten thousand enemies

      who surround me on every side.

 7 Arise, O Lord!

      Rescue me, my God!

   Slap all my enemies in the face!

      Shatter the teeth of the wicked!

 8 Victory comes from you, O Lord.

      May you bless your people.