Can’t you do better, Pat?
I hate to write about Pat Robertson again, but he sets himself up so easily. And I guess what gets me about him is that he purports to be a Minister of the Church and Gospel of Jesus Christ. Here is what caught me this weekend.
Parade Magazine, Sunday, March 26, 2006, Walter Scott’s Personality Parade
Q. Pat Robertson, host of the 700 Club, just published Miracles Can Be Yours Today. What miracle does he pray for?
A. “I have prayed that somehow, thanks to the goodness of the Lord, we would have a change in the composition of the Supreme Court,” Robertson, 76, tells us, “We’ve had two new justices already, and I’m sure one more is coming. That’s miracle enough for me.”
Come on, Pat! Where is the focus of your being? Who or what are you truly serving in this world? My reading of the Bible would lead me to pray for so many more wonderful miracles than something dealing with political ambition and government bureaucracy.
How about a few of these ideas:
- A true and lasting peace in the Middle East where all sides work together to improve the situation of each person and people group living in the region?
- Leaders in every nation setting aside their arrogance and self-serving to work out ways to help the people they are supposedly serving to be able to receive the health care they need, to find a satisfying way of living that truly supports their family, and that reduces people’s fears and compulsion to resort to violence just to get what they need.
- How about some cures and ends to AIDS, heart disease, diabetes, abuse, cancer, malnutrition, and other handicapping disease. How about clean water and safe shelter for everyone. How about every child growing up knowing that they are loved and enabled to explore and fulfill the potential God created them with.
- Or to get personal. How about freedom from fear and freedom for true intimacy with my wife, my family and my God? That would be a pretty big miracle for me.
- One more. The miracle of not thinking of myself first whenever I think of miracles, but not denying the blessing with which God created each of us (even myself).
How about you? Go ahead and add some more ideas for miracles that you would pray for that would be better than Pat’s. in the comments.
April 3rd, 2006 at 5:21 am
I think that what Robertson means is that we should pray for the end of abortion in America. That seems like a worthwhile goal.
April 13th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
That might be true, John, but why not put it that way? Why simply stop with a single legal incident.
I could completely support praying for the miracle that we would come to a day when abortion is not only unwanted but unnecessary and every child born is welcomed with unconditional love and support.