I have a confession to make...when I read my devotion this morning and it reminded me just how sad my prayer life had become. Read this quote from this morning's devotion: "I had access to the Creator and Sustainer of the universe. The Great I AM. The Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. The all-powerful, ever-present, all-knowing God who can send fire from Heaven, shut the mouths of lions, calm a raging storm. Yet all I had been asking Him to do was keep me safe and help me have a good day."
You see, I had become "comfortable" with my status quo. I had been swimming in the bucket instead of the ocean! I had, sadly, forgotten with whom I was conversing. I need to change that! Instead of asking God for a good day, I need to ask God to use me in ways I cannot even begin to fathom. I need to come before His throne as His child and report for duty!
Let me put it this way, if you have a racing thoroughbred that has won the tripe crown, would you put that horse in a children's pony ride at the fair? Or would you let that champion BE champion! When we pray we have access to God! He WANTS to hear from us. So why do we whisper? Why do we not say, "Abba, here I am! Use me! Take me where YOU want me! Let me BE Your messenger!"
Isn't it time we stopped being "safe"?
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