Last night in the evening worship service here at Beulah, Bob Swickard challenged us with the fact that there is a tremendous difference between trying something and training for something. Using the example of a marathon, he confessed, that should he attempt to run a marathon, he (like so many of us) would fail miserably. However, those who hope to win train for the event and it takes years of training to become competitive. To my delight, he then asked us to examine our prayer life; are we simply trying to pray, or are we training for prayer? Well, I don’t have to tell you the importance I see in prayer. We might experience salvation with a feeble prayer life, but it is thru training (lots of training) that we are able to live our life in constant communication with God. I think it is even possible for each of us to live as mystics: to become the Tiger Woods of prayer. However, it takes the same dedication and perseverance that it took Tiger to get to the top of his game. Unfortunately, in a world of constant distractions and desires for immediate gratification, few are able to maintain the focus, or willing to expend the energy…so we often settle for ‘trying’ and wonder why we don’t have a better connection to God.
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Sometimes we make it too difficult with our rambling on, we just need to listen! Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10
I'm continuing to keep you all in my prayers.
Yeah, but sometimes we must become intentional in both our listening and our doing (instead of listening/doing just enough to satisify our own desires).
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