Category Archives: reap what you sow

Saturday, December 28, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo in deep repentance:

“Let all their wickedness come before you…”
(Lamentations 1:22)

I’ve been angry enough at someone to pray that prayer of Jeremiah’s Jesus…

but I’m not going to do it.

No way.

You’ve made it clear:

What goes around, comes around.

I don’t want all my wickedness to come before You!

There’s way too much of it.
Still.

My prayer is the one You prayed on the cross:

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

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Proverbs 26:27; Matthew 5:44; Matthew 6:15; Luke 6:37; Luke 23:34; Galatians 6:7; James 2:12-13

Monday, June 11, 2018

 

Pray this Lazaroo in chastened faith:

“They are gossips…”
(Romans 1:29)

I really need Your help with this one, Jesus!

I have a feel for when something is newsworthy.

There’s a tendency in me

to want to blurt out what I know.

But I can’t, can I? I don’t have Your permission!

The only time for me to pass it on
is when it’s truly helpful – not when it’s merely juicy –

lest I sow a poisonous seed
I most assuredly do not want to reap!

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Proverbs 11:13; Proverbs 16:28; Proverbs 18:8; Proverbs 20:19; Proverbs 26:20; Galatians 6:7-9; James 1:19

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with compassion:

“…not to put it too severely.”
(2 Corinthians 2:5)

That’s a decent goal, Jesus.

Even when someone has a rebuke coming
there’s no point in overdoing it.

When they’re already down, busted and bleeding
why pile on?

Whether they admit it or not, they usually know they’ve blown it.

It doesn’t help when I make them feel worse
than they already do.

Besides, You’ve warned me:

What goes around, comes around.

Severe criticism is a seed

I’d rather not reap.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning 212-LAZAROO…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Psalms 6:1; Proverbs 26:27; Hosea 8:7; Matthew 7:1; Romans 14:1-4; Galatians 6:7-9; 1 Timothy 5:1