Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Thoughts on prayer....
I am reading a book called Too Busy Not to Pray, Slowing down to be with God by Bill Hybles. I found it when we were packing up books to move and thought I'd try it.
Found a neat quote that makes you think about your motivations behind praying, our role praying, and God's role answering:

"A little boy took his geography test and then prayed, 'Dear God, please make Barcelona the capital of Spain.' " (p. 45)

How often do I do that? How often do I make a mistake and say Lord please fix it, or don't make the wisest decision and say ok God help, change what I did. Yes, God hears, and yes God will answer my prayer but if I eat junk food, it may not be 'blessed' to my body and I may be sick the next day. (p. 45)

What do you think about these illustrations?

1 comment:

Debbie Schreck said...

They are good thoughts. I think we sometimes view prayer as "magic".