By crosswalk101 on Tuesday, November 18, 2025
2Thessalonians 3:1-6 “Finally dear brothers and sisters, we ask you to pray for us. Pray that the Lord’s message will spread rapidly and be honored wherever it goes, just as when it came to you. Pray, too, that we will be rescued from wicked and evil people, for not everyone is a believer. But the Lord is faithful; He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. And we are confident in the Lord that you are doing and will continue to do the things we commanded you. May the Lord lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God and the patient endurance that comes from Christ.”
The apostle Paul is asking his brothers and sisters in Christ to pray for him. Not only in Paul’s time, but in our time, we ask our friends in Christ to pray for us. Sometimes beneath the surface of our routine daily lives, there is a fierce struggle among invisible powers that seems to strike fear in us. Our biggest defense is prayer – a prayer that God will protect us from evil and that He will strengthen us. This is the message in the above Scripture. We live in the Light of Christ’s return. This is our hope and God’s promise to strengthen and guide us along our path in this life. In the beautiful words and music by Juliana Howard in our UCC hymnary, “In the Quiet Curve of Evening, You are there!” Here are the words of the second of four touching verses. “In the rest between the phrases, in the cracks between the stars, in the gaps between the meaning, You are there. In the melting down of endings, in the cooling of the sun, in the solstice of winter, You are there, You are there, You are there, You are there!”
Prayer: Dear loving and faithful God, thank You for being there for us – there in the quiet curve of evening, and there in the day before the cooling of the sun. How grateful we are that You are with us wherever we go. Amen.
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