"Sometimes, when my 19-month-old daughter falls asleep in my arms, I pray for parents in Nigeria whose children have been slain in their beds by Muslim extremists. When my 4-yrar-old son cries after falling down, I'm reminded to send up a prayer for children in Somalia who cry out for mothers and fathers lost to murderous Islamists.
A slight chill wind might lead me to pray for Christians in North Korean labor camps who suffer icy temperatures day and night without adaquate food, clothing, or medicines...
I pray God will draw close to orphans in Somalia, Nigeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Kenya, India, Iraq, Colombia, and other nations with the comfort of His presence and that those children will know the hope of embracing their parents anew on the other side.
- Jeff M. Sellers (editor of Morning Star News)
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NLT) We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you. All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.
That is why we never give up. Though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.
