🏕 English QT(Jun 24 Thursday)
When it seems that you prayed ’til your strength is all gone,
and your tears fall like raindrops all the day long
Jesus cares and He knows just how much you can bear
He’ll speak your name to someone in prayer
Someone is praying for you
someone is praying for you
And when it seems you’re all alone,
and your heart would break in two
Remember someone is praying for you
📖 2 Kings 8(Elisha weeps)
In the movie titled “Passion of Christ’ directed and produced by Mel Gibson, there is a scene in which a gigantic bundle of water falls from heaven onto the ground and the whole ground is shaken. Perhaps it was to be meant to symbolize the weeping of God sad- dened by the death of His son. As King Ben-Hadad of Aram became ill, he dispatched Hazael to prophet Elisha to ask what would happen to him in the future. Elisha told Hazael, “Go and say to Ben-Hadad, ‘You will certainly recover’; but the LORD has revealed to me that he will in fact die.” Then Elisha kept staring at Hazael until he felt embarrassed and Elisha wept.
Elisha wept because of all the evil that Hazael would inflict in the future on the descendants of Israel. Elisha knew that Hazael would set fire to their fortified places, kill their young men with the sword, dash their little children to the ground, and rip open their pregnant women. And when Elisha saw Israel being savagely trampled by Hazael, he could not help but weep. The tears of the prophet are like spokesmen for the mind and tears of God. God’s heart was aching because His justice called for punishment of His own peo- ple and that was the cause of Elisha’s tears.
What caused God’s heart to ache was not Hazael but the people of Israel. God weeps when His people are fraught with sins. Though this land is full of sins that would make God weep, we the people of God should be the object of God’s joy by wiping away the tears of God.
🎶 Someone is Praying for You
