Last night in a healing prayer course I am attending we discussed the “hard questions” – what to say when life is unfair, which seems to be so often it is barely worth mentioning anymore except when something so outrageously unfair comes along to break the pain barrier anew….

So I was thinking about how lovely it will be when God’s kingdom is re-established on earth, with perfect justice for everyone – my soul was longing and fainting for the courts of the Lord.

This is not an even, get you unbelievers, kind of thing. It is a get-the-system kind of thing, replace it with God’s perfect system that orders the days and the seasons….

Of course the thought of God’s courts, where my every bad thought and deed is known, is also somewhat scary. But I trust in the covering forgiveness of my Lord Jesus Christ, so that I can dwell there as a child of God.

Acts 8-9 introduces us to Saul, the persecutor of the new Christians, and takes us through his Road to Damascus moment where he encounters Jesus, who asks him why he is persecuting his people.

He goes blind from the sight of Jesus’ light, and another Christian, Ananias, is called to go heal him. Ananias is very frightened, but God assures him Saul has, literally, seen the light.

“And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, ‘Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

And immediately Saul went out and started to preach Christ risen.

Dear Father God, Please let me hear and obey You when You have work for me, even when it frightens me, as Ananias’ work must have frightened him. Thank You for my healing group. Please bless all of us in it with Your Holy Spirit to pray rightly for those who come to us. Please forgive me when I speak wrongly within it, and please help me to speak up when I think I need to. Please forgive me my sins. Please continue to strengthen P and Uncle M. In Jesus’ name, Amen