Praying For Other People

Last night I was talking to a friend about the boy who had been chained in the basement out in California, had his knees beat with baseball bats, etc., and he asked me "so the demons can come and do whatever they like, why doesn't God get involved?"

Well, on the face of it that seems a very irreverent question, yet it is not. It is the question that humanity has struggled with since Job. I don't have an answer, but I do have a possibility that might go toward an answer...there was no one to pray God into that boy's life!

That need repeating. There was no one to pray God into that boy's life. When you take the sheer weight of evil that is done, and put it on the scale with the weight of those who actually pray, then evil will win every time. There are more evil doers than there are pray-ers. People will write me and say, "but I pray every day." Yes, but do you pray for those other than your family? Do you pray for those held against their will? Do you pray for the abused? Do you try to place yourself in your heart in the dungeons where women and men who are kept as sex slaves, and beaten regularly?

Do you pray for those laying alone in their nursing home bed, with no visitors, lonely, sick, and afraid? Do you pray for a young father whose wife has just died, and now he must carry on with his life and raising his children, while dealing with all the grief he and his children have? Switch that to a young mother and pray for that? And I don't mean specific people in those situations that you know. You have to pray for ALL in that situation.

We must pray specifically for those things, not just in general and say, I've said all the prayers I need to say. It is up to those of us who pray to actually pray for God to enter into situations like those listed above, because, if not us, then who will?