The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday

I saw a comic book sketch of a boy kneeling by his bedside saying his evening prayers as his dad walked by the bedroom’s open door. The boy looked up and said ‘Hi Dad; just saying my prayers; do you need anything while I’m here?’ His dad looked like he’d had a long day.

At first, it made me laugh; but as I pondered it I realised something. Our design is for complete dependency on God and Intimacy with Him. We are not meant to figure out life on our own. Prayer is the only way to make life work.

As the pace of life quickens, the pressure mounts, and demands are placed upon people that our ancestors would never comprehend; perhaps everyone in the modern world could embrace the Navy Seals saying “The only easy day was yesterday”. We are even harassed by our own telephones!

Often at best people try to shoehorn God in on Sunday morning and a quick prayer as they run out of the house. But we need a lot more than that to survive let alone thrive. Jesus spent whole nights in prayer. Even Jesus needed to. To commune with the Father, the only one who truly knew Him (and the only one who knows and understands us).

Prayer is the oxygen for the soul, without it, we will shrivel up and die. The human heart is the meeting place for God and man, He is already there; (like in a Zoom breakout room) waiting for us to enter, and share our troubles with Him so He can immediately get to work on them. (He loves to be needed).

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