Worshiping a Listening God

After last week I am more convinced than ever that people are desperate to communicate with deity. I visited a Hindu Center and watched as people bowed to statues of animals and flowers, worshipping the created, but not the Creator. I visited a Buddhist Temple and watched people light incense to burn in tribute to overweight images of their deity. I visited a Sikh Temple and watched them put their sacred writing to bed so it could rest. I visited the Muslim Mosque and watched them bow toward Mecca is hopes someone in that direction would hear and respond. One thing I saw in common. Each “worshipper” had some means of attracting the attention of their deity, a bell, a drum, a call, chant – “waking them up to get their attention” as one adherent explained. I walked away from each with mixed feelings – sorrow for those who walk in darkness and joy that I do not have to awaken my God for worship, for He “neither slumbers nor sleeps” (Ps. 121:4) I also felt that I and my prayer team were the only ones in the various places of worship talking to a deity that was actually listening.

Join me this week in talking with a listening God that is awake whatever time you call:
• Continue to pray for Janet, Kevin and others as they prepare for the “More Than Gold” winter Olympic ministry in Vancouver/Whistler, B.C., Canada.
• Pray for the 345 people groups in Southeast Asia who are without a single Christian witness among them.
• Pray for the Mobile Ministry Team in the Ukraine.
• Pray for Ron as he undergoes medical exams and tests this week.