Category Archives: calloused

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

 

Take warning, as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…you will be utterly despised.”
(Obadiah 1:2)

Whew! That’s a tough one, Jesus!

But that was the punishment You meted out against Edom
the people descended from Jacob’s older brother.

Why?

Because of the calloused cruelty they exhibited
toward Your hurting, chosen people.

No matter how low one of Your flawed believers sinks

may I never pile on while You’re disciplining them

and risk becoming one of the “utterly despised.”

It’s not my place to add to their misery

lest some of their misery becomes mine.

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Exodus 3:7; Deuteronomy 32:35; Obadiah 1:10-12; Matthew 7:1; Romans 2:4; Romans 12:19; Hebrews 10:30

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

 

Take warning as you pray this Lazaroo:

“…every face turns pale.”
(Joel 2:6)

Some faces turn pale over the smallest thing, Jesus.

But when every face turns pale
we’re talking about something truly terrifying.

You are so kind, so loving – even longsuffering.

It takes repeated, calloused, uncaring disobedience
to force You into doling out this kind of punishment
on the people You love with all Your heart.

But that’s what love does

when nothing else works

when the one You deeply cherish

no longer pays attention.

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Exodus 34:6; Numbers 14:18-20; Psalms 86:15; Romans 2:4; Ephesians 4:30-32; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 3:15