Pay particular attention to your private prayer life. Do you
make small talk with God? Do you present him with a list of demands? Or the
same worn out thank-yous? How would you feel of a friend who always spoke to
you in clichés and threadbare phrases and quotes? Would you consider your
relationship close or even real to someone who always has a script or who spoke
to you if you weren’t there or weren’t the real you but someone they imagined
you to be?
How long should you pray to the Lord in private? How about
until you run right out of trite over-used lines and come to humble clumsy but deeply
honest and worshipful conversation with God? Get all the fluff out of the way if
you must and then do real business with God – from whom no need or deed can be
hidden.
Pray until the real you is talking to the real God of
scripture. Then you will know Him and He you. Then you will be trusting and
worshipping Him in spirit and in truth.
And do this without ceasing.
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