Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Exodus chapter 8 verses 8 and 9:
8 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, ‘Pray to the Lord to take away the frogs from me and my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.’ 9Moses said to Pharaoh, ‘Kindly tell me when I am to pray for you and for your officials and for your people, that the frogs may be removed from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile.’
One of Dr. King’s Ten Commandments for Non-violence required the following:
“Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.”
We must continue to act kindly towards all others. We must pray for everyone — including our enemies. And we must pray for Pharaoh, hard as that may be.
We must pray also for Putin, and for all the dangerous and hard-hearted public officials we have in our own country also.
We pray for their blessing. Not the blessing of wealth or success. But the blessing of humility and conversation.
Let us take this next week of the Passiontide and Holy Week to pray fervently for all, and especially for our enemies, and the workers of evil in this world.
It may not melt their hearts; but it will keep ours from also being hardened, and it will remind us that we — as Dr. King said in another Commandment — our ultimate goal is not victory, but reconciliation.
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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