vain repetitions

Hawkins said:

One of the purpose of praying is that it usually remains the only way for one to communicate with God in a bidirectional manner. So it's not necessarily for something prayed must be fulfilled. It's more about how the distance between one and God is shortened. Prayers usually form a kind of intangible pattern for one to reckon more subconsciously. I pray the Lord's prayer on a daily basis. I actually learned the memorized the prayer when I was in a Catholic high school and being an atheist. Till this day I still perceive that it helps to shortened the gap between God me, and the more I pray the more I can tell the importance of the content itself of the Lord's prayer, such us "lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil". That applies almost every minutes of every Christian.

Does God lead you not into temptation but deliever you from evil? You can't tell. You can never say that it's in vain!

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