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 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.'
Sometime 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 Him.
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