Desert Streams Ministry, an Exodus Member Ministry, is blogging through Lent. I received the following message through Facebook:
You are invited to please join us as we pray and fast during Lent.
Andy has written 40 brief reflections on the power of God’s mercy throughout the history of Desert Stream.
Join us for Life in the Desert: http://andycomiskey.wordpress.com/
As you read and reflect may you encounter the Lord of life.
Reflections number 1 and number 2 are already up. Andy concludes his first reflection by explaining the purpose of blogging his 40 reflections during Lent:
In these 40 days, I shall be reflecting on our 30 years of ‘Desert Stream’: an extended time with Jesus in the heat of ministry. I hope to convey 40 ways in which His mercy made the burning sand a place of pools.
We shall follow every reflection with a particular plea: that God would have mercy on the USA and use for His glory the current battle for marriage still raging in CA (Court case Perry vs. Schwarzenegger challenging Prop. 8; closing arguments will be made during Lent with Judge Walker’s decision soon to follow).
‘As You have shown us mercy, O God, in the desert places of our lives, would You show mercy to the beleaguered state of marriage in the USA? As the Perry vs. Schw. case wends its way to the National Supreme Court, prepare for Yourself a victory. We shall render to Cesaer what is Cesaer’s but we shall prayerfully fight that what is Yours, O God. Prepare the hearts of each justice, especially Justice Anthony Kennedy, to uphold marriage according to Your merciful design. Remember mercy, O God.’
The second reflection is about Jesus facing temptation in the desert and how we can learn from His experience.
So … what do you think about Andy’s premise? The reflections themselves? I am looking forward to reading the rest of them. Whether you fully agree with Andy or not, you can always count on him being insightful and often quite provocative. He’ll get you thinking.
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