Today’s Thought “Called to Suffer?” G. Ward Isaiah 38:1-3 In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said to him, “This is what the LORD says: “Set your house in order, for you are going to die and not live.” 2 Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, 3 and said, “Please, LORD, just remember how I have walked before You wholeheartedly and in truth, and have done what is good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept profusely. Don’t allow your liberal arts education seek to explain the way of the Lord, particularly when your pre-suppositional thoughts of what HE should do is the determinant. Some get cured, others don’t, some starve and others won’t. Some are granted riches and others lie in abject poverty, while others desire clean drinking water and others only drink Perrier. We’re told to pray about everything, but when the Savior taught disciples the model, we tagged it the Lord’s Prayer to which it wasn’t at all. Moreover, Jesus’ example echoed constant sentimentality of HIS will be done (echoes of implicit faith), while ours yells, “do it this way, because You said in Your Word!” I urge any to read the eternal script correctly and to know that HE saw you speed through passages indicative of those HE loved enduring great sufferings, even death, but with a home prepared by Christ where suffering of sorts would be no more. Therefore, modify every supplication in view of so many before us that lived by faith (and remember it’s substantive, but not seen) and cease to pass the baton back to our Sufficient King, particularly after HE told us to prepare “others” outside of the grip of grace to soon become recipients thereunto. There is an answer and it’s called trust (*cf. 1 Cor.15:55-57).