Category Archives: there’s a line

Saturday, April 3, 2021

 

Pray this Lazaroo in sobered assessment:

“…he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob; in his wrath he has torn down the strongholds of Daughter Judah. He has brought her kingdom and its princes down to the ground in dishonor.”
(Lamentations 2:1-2)

There’s a line I don’t want to cross, isn’t there, Jesus?

You treat us so well, so lovingly
with such mercy and forgiveness

that we forget…

out there somewhere…

that line is there.

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2 Samuel 24:14; Psalms 130:4; Matthew 26:28; Luke 1:50; Romans 9:22-24; Ephesians 1:7; Titus 3:4-7

Thursday, June 27, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with excuseless humility:

“…before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you…”
(Zephaniah 2:2)

That’s the last thing I want, Jesus!

I know You’re unimaginably longsuffering.
I know You’re loving, merciful and kind.
You’re unbelievably patient with me.

But there’s a line, isn’t there?

One I’d better never cross.

The thing is, I can’t see it, can’t tell when I’m close.

So I’d better turn around now

change whatever I know needs to be corrected
while I still can.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Exodus 32:12; Numbers 25:4; Deuteronomy 13:17; Joshua 7:26; 2 Kings 23:26; 2 Chronicles 28:11; Hebrews 10:26-31

Monday, April 22, 2019

 

Pray this Lazaroo with every fiber of your being:

“…the fierce anger of the LORD…”
(Zephaniah 2:2)

I don’t like to think of You this way, Jesus

but I know it’s real.

You’re longsuffering, slow to anger, abounding in love…

but there’s a line.

When one of Your children repeatedly, willfully, unapologetically crosses it

You make certain they realize
that they have done a foolish thing.

I’ve known Your well-deserved discipline countless times, LORD

but never Your wrath.

With Your help

I’d like to keep it that way.

[LISTEN to today’s Lazaroo by phoning (812) 473-7729…or by clicking the PLAY button below:]

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Exodus 34:6; Numbers 1:53; Numbers 16:46; Deuteronomy 9:8; Deuteronomy 29:20; Deuteronomy 32:22; Psalms 7:11; Matthew 3:7

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

 

Pray this Lazaroo with catalytic dedication:

“He sold them to their enemies all around…”
(Judges 2:14)

Don’t ever sell me to my enemies, Jesus!

I know You won’t
because I’m not about to forsake You.

That’s a last-ditch action on Your part, isn’t it?

You only resort to it

when people take advantage of Your kindness
and ignore Your every warning.

Not me.

I hear You – loudly and clearly.

You’re good, loving, merciful, longsuffering.

But there’s a line I’d better never, ever cross.

I won’t.

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

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Deuteronomy 32:5; Hosea 4:17; Hosea 9:15; Romans 9:13; Hebrews 6:4-8; Hebrews 10:26-31; 1 John 5:16