contempt

11/10/11 My breath prayer for the day comes from Ps. 123:3, "Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt." I know many places in the world where Christians face persecution, harrassment, even death. They know the bite of "contempt." When I was doing my work on my Doctor of Ministry degree, one of my professors, Ralph Underwood, said that we Christians in the USA may face a more subtle form of contempt, that is, to be ignored. We may be counted as irrelevant....one might say beneath contempt. I pray for God's mercy not only for us who believe but also for those who hold us in contempt.

Love,
Lynn