I think I am the only person in the world who is plagued with allergies whenever snow is in the near future. I have no idea what part of the snowflake I am adverse too, but it certainly causes havoc on my head and sinuses. That being said, I've had a marathon headache which makes my head feel about 200 times too heavy for my body. As I was throwing a few pain reliever pills down my throat, I thought of something that struck Jay during a mission trip to Cambodia several years ago. The people he was working with mentioned that prayer is so essential to their lives because they honestly have no other resources to compete with the attention we should all be giving to prayer. When ibuprofen is not available, you learn to pray over those headaches. I never even considered praying for my headache because there is a bottle of pills in my medicine cabinet. How much of my life should be brought to his throne of grace but since it seems as though I am in control, the thought of seeking Christ in it never crosses my mind? Once when Jay was preaching through the Lord's prayer, he spent significant time on "Give us this day our daily bread." He mentioned that this is actually one of the most difficult parts of the Lord's prayer because we, for the most part, can provide for ourselves a loaf of bread. We run to Christ during the difficult times, we cry out in the crisis as we should, but what about the little needs of every day life? We too often presume upon our own abilities to take care of the seemingly mundane, when the reality is that we need Christ in all moments of our lives. From headaches, to sandwiches, to kindly-spoken words, may I bring all to His throne of grace acknowledging Him as the Giver of all things and the One to rely upon in all things. Thank you Lord for a headache that brings me back to the realization of Your message to "pray at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication." (Ephesians 6:18)
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