To Entreat

I've been thinking about "entreaty" because it is one of the definitions of supplication and supplication is what God commands me to do for "all men" in I Timothy 2:1.

I've been thinking about how much urgency and passion is implied by words like "entreaty" and "supplication"

My prayers for myself are sometimes urgent. Sometimes, too, for a friend they are urgent.

"All men" is another matter entirely. For those same "all men" for whom Christ lived and died, for the "all men" who are dying without Him daily, for "all men" whose time on earth is the only heaven they can expect....for these, "entreaty" is almost too weak a descriptor of the urgent prayers I should make and it is far too strong a representation of the prayers I actually do offer.