Why does prayer seem so difficult or elusive so often? Why can I remember to text a friend, but not talk with God? Why is it so easy to chat someone on FaceBook, but not chat with Jesus? Why is it second nature to have multiple phone conversations with someone during a day, but so foreign to have one conversation with the Big Guy?
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And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
(Genesis 3:8-9 ESV)
It is part of human nature for prayer to be difficult. Ever since the fall, the heart of man longs in a most desperate way for God, but gets easily distracted and entangled in everything except God. There is a separation between man and God. An unnatural separation. A separation that was not the original intent. But, because there is now a separation, the simple act of having a conversation with a friend is now often times difficult and awkward. Prayer should be simple. A simple conversation. A conversation between a child and the most loving and caring father. There is no formula, no bullet list. God already knows my deepest, darkest secret that I try to hide in the back corner closet of the basement of my mind, He knows more about me than I know about myself. So then, why do I struggle with prayer?
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