The Prayer Request Box

There's a pretty good symbol I'd like to share with you today, reader. And that is the “prayer request box.” This little cardboard box has a slit on the top to serve as an entry point for little slips of paper to penetrate and get stored inside the box. What does these little pieces of paper have written on it? The answer is simple: prayer requests.

Each time a holier-than-thou spots a sinner in real life, she'll take out a slip of paper and a pen, and write the person's name and the dominating sin they're living out. She'll then fold the piece of paper and slip it inside. Then, she'll somehow open the box – usually there's a little door at the side that enables a person to grab a slip of paper. She'll grab a random piece of paper and, you guessed it, start praying for you.

She'll keep doing this until you've “changed” – until her prayer's have been answered and she see's God's miraculous work in the person's life. After that has happened, she forgets about you.

I see this way too often in CC. How often do holier-than-thou's only approach others when they see them “sin”? They go up to them, “stand up” for the truth, and maybe (just maybe) pray for you when they're not in public anymore and no one's watching them. Praying more than once may even be a stretch. And they'll keep going up to you, telling you to quit what you're doing, being the holy and righteous crusader for “justice” that they are – until you quit. Then they'll quit. Quit paying attention to you, only focusing on themselves, their own “holy” relationship with God and only seeking self-preservation for their purity. The Scripture says, “He that saveth his life shall lose it.” In my viewpoint, these holier-than-thou's have already lost it – they share quite an ineffective gospel message.