Tag: Prayer

“I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8 Jesus has just told a parable, and in contrast to the unrighteousness judge in the story, who brings justice only because he is annoyed by a persistent…

To You, O Lord, I lift up my soul. O my God, in You I trust. Psalm 25:1-2a To think about God is to pray. I say this with a particular definition of “thinking” in mind. I am not talking about intellectually engaging with God as a subject to be mastered or a problem to…

Contemplation is the attempt to behold God as he is, and prayer is opening ourselves up to him. To say it in a different way, in prayer we strive to be ourselves, just as we are, before the loving God we know through Jesus. To do this means praying honestly. Being open and honest in…

Consider this statement: Prayer starts in God and not in us. Perhaps this statement raises some questions for us. In what sense can we say this, that our prayers, which seem to be originating in our hearts and minds, have their beginning in God? And if true, how does this change the way we think…

Prayer is itself an end, and not just a means to an end, namely, getting answers or what we want. If we are constantly looking for answers to our prayers, the outcomes or works that we have beseeched God to bring and do, our obsession will naturally block all else out. We will miss that…