Encouraging - Prayer

If you are not praying, then you are quietly confident that time, money, and talent are all you need in life. You’ll always be a little too tired, a little too busy. But if, like Jesus, you realize you can’t do life on your own, then no matter how busy, no matter how tired you are, you will find the time to pray….

If we think we can do life on our own, we will not take prayer seriously. Our failure to pray will always feel like something else –a lack of discipline or too many obligations. But when something in important to us, we make room for it. Prayer is simply not important to many Christians because Jesus is already an add-on. That is why, as we’ll see later, suffering is so important to the process of learning how to pray. It is God’s gift to us to show us what life is really like.

Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life, (NavPress, Colorado Springs, CO: 2009), 49, 59.