Saturday, August 12, 2006

On your knees boy

I always say that I will pray about things.

I usually do. Sometimes I don't.

Sometimes it is easier not to pray because I know what the answer will be. Sometimes it is by conversing with God that I find out the answers He has been so desperately trying to make known to me. Sometimes I do a lot of talking. Usually I try to do more listening.

God has promised to answer us when we call to Him. He has promised to show us great things that we could not figure out on our own. When a prayer is offered in faith it has the power to make a sick person well. When we interact with God through conversation, meditiation, or just by being still before Him -- there is no limit to what can happen.

There are no excuses for an inconsistent prayer life. I have tried them all and in the end it boils down to my inability to commit, my inability to humbly bow, my inability to hold a real conversation and my inability to recognize the reality of God's desire to show Himself as being so real. So real, in fact, that I am at fault for excluding Him from a conversation that He has caused to happen.

"I am sorry. Take my every interaction and base it around Yourself so that I might be a light in a world that has forgotten about the lightswitch."