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Is your need important to God?

Do you feel guilty “bothering” God about helping you achieve
a work-related goal when your neighbor is praying for his wife to be healed
from COVID?
 

Does it make you feel bad when you spend time praising God
that your house remained intact during a recent hurricane and then discover
your neighbor, only a block away, would love to be praising God for the same
miracle?
 

When we struggle with these or similar feelings of
unworthiness, are we telling ourselves that our needs are only important to God
if they’re weightier than everyone else’s? Should our less critical requests be
put on hold or not presented at all – ever? When our promotion comes through or
our home is spared, should we feel guilty because others weren’t as fortunate?
 

While we never want to disregard another’s time of anguish,
we also never want to disregard the One Who knows our needs even before we ask
Him (see Matthew 6:8). God wants (indeed, expects) us to go to Him when we need
His help. And when He blesses us, He finds great delight in seeing our joy.
 



Think of it this way: For those of us who are parents of
multiple children, don’t we care about every struggle each child faces? And
when one of them is blessed with good news, don’t we enjoy seeing that child’s
happiness?
 

Or do we only care about the child with the greatest need? Do
we rebuke the one who celebrates good news because their sibling (or relative
or classmate) has suffered a loss or disappointment? Of course not.
 

We, as compassionate people, want to be there and respond
with sensitivity to those who suffer, including when – especially when – our
circumstances turn out better than theirs.
 

But it wouldn’t be practical, biblical, or relationally
healthy to weigh the needs of everyone around us whenever we consider going to
God with a prayer request. Especially knowing there will always be more serious
needs bombarding heaven.
 

Thankfully, God is bigger than any (and all) needs we have.
Unlike an ER physician who triages every patient and treats them in order of
seriousness, God has the ability to hear and respond to every request we make –
all of us, all at the same time.
 

What a mighty God we serve! 

So… what do you need from your heavenly Father? 

Go to Him – frequently.

And after you’ve received His help, thank Him for His
blessings.

 Sheryl H. Boldt, a Franklin County resident, is the author of the blog www.TodayCanBeDifferent.net  Connect with her at SherylHBoldt@gmail.com.



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David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.

Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.

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