When God created humankind, I'm not convinced that he ever intended for communication between us to be any harder than, 'Hey Dad, how business?' 'What's on your mind, Dad?' 'Tell me about you, Dad.' 'I was thinking the other day, Dad...'
What d'you reckon?
Personally, I find my default setting when thinking of prayer is to panic, look back over the last week of my life, decide that it would be probably more agreeable for the Almighty to not hear from me given the state of my soul, and make a personal commitment to self to 'sort my life out' before Sunday church so that I can engage with 'the worship', whatever that means; my prayer life is reduced to firing off quick one-liners of generic christianese that don't really help anyone.
Feels a bit foolish to me.
Actually, I'd suggest that the Father is waiting, longing, even desperate, for us to drop such ridiculous methods and start behaving a little bit more like His CHILDREN.
I spend an awful lot of my time complaining to God, and frankly to anyone who will listen, that I'm not quite where I want to be 'with God.' The thing is, that's a completely human and downright idiotic way to go about this Christian business.
As I understand it, the Father gave everything, including His own son, so that I could be in relationship with him - that's filial, Father-son, closer than anything else sort of relationship by the way - so if I'm finding any space between us, you can bet large sums of money that it's because I made the space.
If I don't feel I'm 'doing well with God', best to start by telling Him that; it's called confession.
The space needs to be filled from our end.
May I suggest that it might look a bit like this:
'Hey Dad, how business?'
'What's on your mind, Dad?'
'Tell me about you, Dad.'
'I was thinking the other day, Dad...'
'Dad, I'm really struggling with this...'
'I love you, Father.'
Just a thought.
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