Lord, it's been awhile since i last fervently prayed for mom and pa.. thank you for causing me to flip to
matthew 19. i know You have been teaching me on faith, that faith is hope in the present tense, as in
mark 11:24 whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. and somewhat there is something in me - Your Spirit speaking to my spirit or something - that tells me to keep holding on to the impossible that mom and pa will reconcile. Oh Lord it's so much easier to just believe that things will progress naturally to divorce as it has always seemed.. but everytime i'm tempted to think of that, i remember the hope and direction you had given me back in 2000 during the japan mission... that you planted a seed of prayer for my parents and if i'm not presumptious, that you promised to hear and act on my prayers.. why do i fear that you don't act on them? it is so clear in Your word to believe i
have received and it
will be done. how strange faith is, that it brings the reality of hope into the
present continuous tense - that i
have received; yet in reality it is still a certainty of the
future - that it
will be given.
But one thing i know.. whether it is hope or faith, there is a certainty because it is You Lord who is the object of my hope and faith, not my parents. i have faith that You are able and willing to bring them back to love and fellowship with You and with each other.. and i am not acting on presumption because as ruth rightfully reminded me, You hate divorce (malachi 2:16) and now this passage in matthew speaks of how divorce was allowed only because Your people's hearts were hard, and only on the grounds of marital unfaithfulness, not on 'incompatability'. Oh Lord, love does cover a multitude of sins.. if only both parties would draw close to You and let Your love heal them.. such that they can extend love to those around them whom they have hurt or been hurt by..
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