Why is it so hard for God's people to pray? I constantly struggle to make time to pray, and when I finally make the time, I don't even know what to say. I feel like all I do is ask, ask, ask, but never seem to commune with God. I look to Jesus' example. He withdrew himself to pray (Luke 5:16). He prayed earnestly during his times of temptation (John 17). When Jesus prayed did he pray just to ask for strength? I don' think so. Jesus prayed to commune with the Father. Being God's Son, Jesus knew the endless riches in God himself, and he sought it. He withdrew himself from the busyness of the crowds to a solace place to commune with his Abba. Why don't we withdraw ourselves from the busyness of life, even when the busyness may be doing Christ-centered work? We think that giving God a full ten minutes in the car on the way to work, or the ten minutes in the shower is withdrawing ourselves from the world, but it is not. Those are a part of our daily routine. It takes no deliberate effort to talk to God in the shower or in the car on the way to and from work. Withdrawing to a quite and still place we must do.
How amazing that the "Word become flesh" prayed. It is so easy to dismiss Christ's humanity because we have such a robust theology of Christ's divinity. But Jesus needed strength just like we do. And he needed and wanted to commune with His Father just like we should want to. Don't we just need more of God himself, the supremee source of all blessing and joy?
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