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Saturday, April 30, 2016
Prayer for my mom and dad who are on a cruise with her relatives
So I ask all of you out there to continue to pray for my mom and dad who are on a cruise with my mom's sister's this week. I recently met with each of them individually after a long time period of non interaction apart from email messaging and I pray for their health and well-being and and wisdom spiritual wisdom. I'm not sure they completely understand me and things I have accomplished in my years of teaching in Christian Ministry. And pray for a dawning of understanding who I am as a 49 year old man in having experienced a conversion similar to Saul becoming Paul. Although I was not Jewish comma for coming Christian I didn't go through a conversion of some sort that made me a different person a better person even so much that I change my name in the process, but they have a hard time appreciating the name change even though all of us really should have that name change at some point in time when we really truly become Christians. I know some Christians born in the church maybe never have that born-again experience or conversion or even a recognition of Their Own sinfulness and depravity and the need for a savior so they just continue to go to church and think of themselves as pretty good people. My mom and dad are pretty good people I think but I wonder if they ever really came to a realization of their wretchedness as sinners ,as we all are. As we are without Christ lost sheep wretched sinners. I come from denominational tradition that in some ways allows people to attend church without truly coming face-to-face with the reality of our wretchedness. Don't get me wrong though myself as well as my Mom and Dad and other people in my family have also been victims of sin ,the sin of others, some more than others. Right now they're on a cruise with all my mom's sisters and they're all successful people and I'm afraid however they do not have enough Reliance on Jesus Christ, and that too much of their success is attributed to their own hard work and perseverance, rather than Christ Alone. Let us all be humbled enough to confess and repent and say I too am a sinner I too am wretched without Christ and really mean it and understand why it is so serious. And that's my prayer and I ask you to pray for that as well& for their well-being for their return in a few days.