Prayer is about love – not about lists.
It is about drawing near to God, not about impressing God.
It is about enjoying his grace not enduring guilt. In fact, our genuine guilt for loving something altogether more than we love the Father is gone in Christ.
God so loved us that he sent his only Son to be cut off in death so that we might be wonderfully united with him in life.
Prayer is communion with God, a cementing of souls together in a common delight, in this case, a delight in God and his grace towards us in Christ.
It begins and continues with honest words about our loveless lives, our guilt-ridden approaches to prayer, and a shameless embrace of God’s reckless love and grace.
Will prayer be a ritual – or a delight today?
Jonathan Dodson
Pastor/Author/Bible Teacher
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www.jonathandodson.org
Your comments, thoughts or suggestions are welcome. The body text is by the author, the header and the words in italics are mine – John B. Samuel
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