Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Ecclesiastes, chapter 4, verse 1. Again, I saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun

and behold the tears of the oppressed. And they had no one to comfort them. What a

verse to meditate on and pray according to on this Easter Sunday. You see, what's the connection

oppressions under the sun, tears of the oppressed with no one to comfort them. This is the state of

a world of sin and suffering apart from the grace and the mercy of God, a world of oppression,

of war like we see in Ukraine, of refugees, of people enslaved, of all kinds of people oppressed

to have no one to comfort them. Good news of the Bible, the greatest news in all the world

is that God has not left us alone in a world of sin and suffering and oppression and tears.

God has come to us and not only come to us, but has endured these things. Think about

prophecy of Jesus. Talking about the cross in Isaiah, chapter 53, he was oppressed and he was

afflicted by oppression and judgment he was taken away. Jesus, God in the flesh, experienced

this oppressions. Why? Because he loves you. He loves me and he was making a way for us to use

language from Isaiah 53, all of us like sheep who have gone astray. Each of us who has turned his

own way so that the Lord might lay on him the iniquity of us all so that he might pay the price

for all of our sins on a cross. And then he might rise from the dead so that sin does not have

last word and oppression does not have the last word and suffering does not have the last word

and tears don't have the last word not in this world because Jesus has come. He has conquered sin,

death, suffering and the grave. He is risen on high and for everyone who trusts in him,

there is coming a day when he will personally wipe every tear from your eye and there will be no

more sin and no more suffering and no more oppression. Our hope is in Jesus. Ecclesiastes is

pointing us straight to Easter Sunday and to the hope we have in Jesus. The mercy we find, the comfort

...