Isn't it amazing that the moment you need prayer support, Satan tricks you or distracts you into thinking about a million other trivial things and not on the important event that is imminently around the corner?
It's happening to me right now. An important court date is tomorrow, and that date needs prayer. But what has my mind been focused on? I'll list a few of them in no particular order and each is equal parts silly and downright embarrassing. On top of thinking about bills and kids and Mom, I have spent the weekend fretting over: what baby gift to buy next week, how white TJ's teeth should look, should I shop at Crest or Walmart for groceries, have I lost enough weight, why did wear those awful shoes to work on Friday because I have blisters on Saturday, am I ever going to remember all of the names of my 153 new students, what do my bosses think of me, and last but not unbelieveably least, I fretted about the number of chairs set up in the church sanctuary for Sunday morning service. I really wish I was kidding about this because reading what I have just written makes me realize I sound like a certified neurotic.
But after much prayer, I understood that all these silly silly thoughts that exploded into my head over the weekend were just ploys from the enemy to keep me from lifting up tomorrow's court date. The prayer of the righeous is effective, and how effective are my words when I am bogged down in blisters, teeth, and chairs? I also realized that after Tuesday, the trivialities that seem so concrete will disappear like the smoke screen they are. See, the Bible talks about the prayers of the righteous - not the prayers of the distracted. Satan doesn't have to utterly demolish us. He can keep us in our own little anxious world too caught up in what's not real and make us impotent warriors in what is real.
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