Category Archives: in that case

Monday, October 3, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in grateful amazement:

“You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.”
(Psalm 8:6-8)

It’s hard to believe You’re talking about me, Jesus…

but You are.

I’m one of those You appointed to be a ruler over the works of Your hands!

In that case
I’d better step it up a notch.

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Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:28; Genesis 4:7; Psalm 119:133; 1 Corinthians 6:3; Galatians 3:26; 1 Thessalonians 5:5

Tuesday, May 17, 2022

 

Pray this Lazaroo in passionate indignation:

“Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!”
(Habakkuk 2:15)

They were doing that 2,600 years ago, Jesus

and they’re still doing it today.

But this isn’t merely about drunkenness, nudity and voyeurism, is it?

In that case, we might think it doesn’t apply to us.

This is about taking advantage of someone.

Now that…

may hit a little closer home.

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Exodus 22:22; Leviticus 25:14; Leviticus 25:17; Deuteronomy 24:14; Romans 2:21-23; 1 Thessalonians 4:6; 2 Peter 2:14

Friday, April 16, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in stunned gratitude:

“Woe to him who…establishes a town by crime!”
(Habakkuk 2:12)

I can’t even begin to imagine how many towns have been established by crime, Jesus.

It has to be a huge number.

But the point is this:

It didn’t pay off.
Not for the people who did it.

Oh, they may have appeared to prosper in the beginning
but the end is what matters –

and that was a different story.

Well…unless they repented!

In that case
You turn our woe…into “Woah!”

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1 Kings 8:46-51; 2 Chronicles 32:26; Job 42:6; Proverbs 1:23; Isaiah 30:15; Jeremiah 18:8; Acts 2:38

Tuesday, April 6, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo with catalytic dedication:

“In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”
(Jude 1:18)

In that case, Jesus…

these must be the last times.

I see both happening:

People making fun of the truths of Your Word

Men and women living blatantly disobedient lives
with no thought of You.

In this environment, taking my stand for You and Your Word is extremely unwelcome.

But that’s okay.

I’m standing.
I’m not gonna budge.
I know how this ends.

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Isaiah 13:9; Joel 2:11; Romans 1:28-32; Galatians 1:3-5; 2 Thessalonians 3:3; 2 Timothy 4:18; 1 Peter 3:10-12

Monday, July 9, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo with caution:

“Sit on the floor by my feet.”
(James 2:3)

I might tell a child to do that, Jesus…

but I’d never treat another adult that way.

Not literally.

However, I’m not sure that excuses me from applying this passage to my life!

When have I ever looked at someone else’s situation
and advised them to settle for something less than I have?

In that case, I’m saying to them what James tells me not to, aren’t I?

Wow.
Ouch.

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Deuteronomy 17:20; 1 Kings 19:4; Matthew 7:12; Romans 12:3; Philemon 1:16; James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6