Paul S. Waugh’s Daily Prayer – A Prayer On God’s Suffering – Dec 1, 2025

Good evening everyone,

Here’s today’s Daily Prayer:

Father, our modern chief, our leader, our teacher, our mentor, our coach, our counsellor, our Creator, our Redeemer, our Dad, we love you, and we grow in our love for you. And we grow in our love for you because love exists. And love exists, Father, because you exist. Without you, love would not exist. And every atheist and agnostic wants love. And you, Father, are the personification—the person—of love, the absolute sum and substance of love.

And as your Word very clearly shows, teaches, demonstrates, elicits, evokes, and directs, where there is not love—true love—where there is not love that is absolute and true, meaning not the love of a child as a father or as a mother… would you love your child if it wasn’t your child? That love. Because that is love. Would you love your enemy as a child, not your child? That love. The love that Christ showed, has shown, is showing, will show, and is the sum and substance of. And he demonstrated incarnate the self-sacrificial love.

Because, Father, as your Word demonstrates, as your Word teaches, we will know the true blues; we will know your people; we will know your body; we will know who your people are—those who have love amongst themselves. And that love that we have amongst ourselves is your love bestowed upon us. Not any human love, but supernatural, theochristological, celestial, glorious, eternal, and infinite love.

And you demonstrated that love by becoming flesh in your own right—not through us, but in your own right, not through your creation but through yourself—incarnate in the flesh, born to an imperfect woman. It is an astonishing act, an astonishing demonstration of your love. Because, Father, you could have waved your celestial finger and everything could have been forgiven and changed. But you didn’t. You demonstrated that you suffer, that no one suffers more than you, that you suffer every millisecond of every day by seeing every single bit of suffering on this earth—every child, every aborted child crying in the womb as their limbs are ripped apart alive without anaesthetic. You see it all.

This is true self-sacrificial love, Father. And people don’t realise that no one suffers more than you. No one. Not even close. Not even to a trillionth degree does anybody suffer as much as you. And no one wants that suffering to end more than you. So when you’re not ending it, it’s an act of love—at your own expense. At your own.

We have a personal relationship with you. We now need a personal relationship with your body. Everything you’ve given us, we’re using it by your decree. We ask you to guide us so we never have to say no when we ought to say yes, inside and outside our own doors, because we can only do such a mammoth, seemingly impossible task with an eternal and infinite—our eternal and infinite—Father, Creator, Commander, Chief, Ultimate Director.

We ask you to forgive our many sins and shortcomings, Father, our sinful states, all the reasons that are sinful. We ask you this fully repentant, through your gift of being able to be that repentant, through your Son Jesus Christ. In His name, Amen.

God’s grace to you,

Paul S. Waugh 

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