When Life Gives You a Parenthesis

A parenthesis is an explanatory word or clause inserted in a sentence for clarity, focus, direction, limitation. However, parentheses are not limited to grammar. Sometimes life gives you a parenthesis. Don’t resist the parentheses of life. If Moses had rebelled at a forty-year dessert parenthesis, we might not have the Ten Commandments. If Paul had resisted a prison parenthesis, we might not have the prison letters – Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, Philemon. If John had balked at a Patmos island parenthesis, we might not have The Revelation. When life gives you a parenthesis, God offers a lesson. It is a lesson that provides clarity, focus, direction, limitation. Accept it with gratitude. Pass it on with passion.

Join me this week in praying for the following global concerns:
• Continue to pray for mission teams that are traveling and serving all over the world this summer.
• Pray for Martha as she transitions from Spain to Germany in August.
• Pray for Sports Camps being held in and around Prague this week.
• Pray for Jerry and The Bridge staff as they minister to the people who share their office building in Vancouver.