Prayer for May 8, 2020

Pastor Matthew Best
2 min readMay 8, 2020

Prayer for May 8, 2020: Please pray with me. God of wisdom, what shall I pray? We ask for wisdom, yet when you provide it, too often we ignore it. Why? Is it because we think we are smarter than you? That we believe that we are right? That we somehow have more insight than you? Or maybe it’s because your ways are not our ways and your thoughts are not our thoughts. And so because of our own narcissism we push your wisdom aside because you don’t match up with us. That is the very definition of pride. And oh how costly that pride is. How many have to pay the price for our pride? Why is our pride so important to us…

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Pastor Matthew Best

My name is Matthew Best. I’m an ELCA (Lutheran) pastor who attempts to translate church and churchy stuff into everyday language.