Early this morning I was reading in the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5, about a distraught father named Jairus. As I pondered his two-sentence urgency-filled request to Jesus I kept thinking about kids today. Jairus said to Jesus, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live” (Mark 5:23). I can only imagine how desperate this father was.
In times of family crisis we get desperate, don’t we? It could be a physical issue with our kids. Or a bad choice they’ve made. An incredibly difficult situation. I’m guessing we’ve all been there at some point. At those times we move outside of ourselves, fully aware of limitations, and driven to the realization that we’ve got nothing but the opportunity to depend on God.
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Source: CPYU
