LORD, PROP US UP
Every time I am asked to pray, I think of the old deacon who always prayed,
"Lord, prop us up on our leanin' side."
After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he
prayed that prayer so fervently.
He answered, "Well sir, you see, it's like this...
I got an old barn out back.
It's been there a long time, it's withstood a lot of weather, it's gone
through a lot of storms, and it's stood for many years.
It's still standing, but one day I noticed it was leaning to one side a bit.
So I went and got some pine poles and propped it up on its leaning side so
it wouldn't fall.
Then I got to thinking 'bout that and how much I was like that old barn.
I've been around a long time, I've withstood a lot of life's storms, I've
withstood a lot of bad weather in life, I've withstood a lot of hard times,
and I'm still standing too.
But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask
the Lord to prop us up on our leaning side, " 'cause I figure a lot of us
get to leaning, at times."
Sometimes we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning
toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that
we shouldn't, so we need to pray, "Lord, prop us up on our leaning side,"
so we will stand straight and tall again, to glorify the Lord.
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