A Prayer about Marvelous Nonsense
A Prayer about Marvelous Nonsense
“But they did not believe the women, because their words seemed to them like nonsense.”
Luke 24:12
Lord,
We rejoice today, remembering the early days after your resurrection.
The women had gone to the tomb looking for you
and had been told by angels that you weren’t there,
for you had risen.
They did as instructed,
running to tell the apostles the unbelievable good news.
But the apostles thought it was “an idle tale,” “nonsense,”
even though you had told them on multiple occasions
that you would rise from the dead (Mark 9:30-32; Matthew 16:21-28; Matthew 17:22-23).
Lord, we live in a skeptical and cynical world,
where belief in miracles is often scoffed at.
Open our minds to study the Scriptures
and our hearts to the unimaginable
good news of the gospel.
Make us like Peter,
who ran to the tomb to see for himself,
bent down, looked in, and saw your grave-clothes
lying in an empty tomb.
When he realized you were gone,
he “marveled” at what had happened.
Make us marvelers too.
It is an amazing story. It is a marvel-ous story.
It is a story that changes everything about life and death.
In your risen name. Amen.
Read Luke 24:1-12.
![In what do you place your confidence?
But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. Jeremiah 17:7
All-Wise God,
Forgive us for placing our confidence
or finding our security and significance
in any number of idols that are not you—
work, money, looks, family,
friends, food, drink,
health, ministry, etc.
Some of us waver between confidence and self-doubt.
Forgive us for our pride and our self-contempt,
for both spring from the same root—
a failure to trust in you alone,
an inability to see or believe
that you are trustworthy.
Indeed, you work in all things,
not some things,
every last detail of our lives,
not just a few unimportant ones,
for the good of those who love you,
to fulfill your wonderful and wise plan,
your redeeming purpose in our lives (See Romans 8:28).
Even this very minute,
even in the dark and tortuous roads of our journey,
you are working beauty and redemption
by your transforming grace.
Right now, we give our supreme confidence
and/or our self-doubt
in the following areas to you:
work: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Relationships: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Health: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Ministry: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
Other: [name ways you need to trust the Lord]
In Jesus’s trustworthy name we pray. Amen.
Read Jeremiah 17:5-8; Romans 8:28-39.
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