I'm currently reading one of the best books I've read on prayer in a long time. I checked it out from the library on a whim, but I may have to eventually just buy it... the urge to highlight and write notes in it is becoming stronger...
Anyway, Bill Hybels makes the point that many times we think about praying, we talk about praying, we really feel we want to pray, but... we don't actually offer up those prayers.
So many times we are content to do without God's best. Our own way seems best, but we end up worrying, striving, working ourselves to death, and ultimately failing because we haven't trusted in God. We only pray when all of our own efforts fail. Sometimes I wonder: does God cause these efforts of ours to fail in order to draw us back to Himself? In a sense, to "force" us to pray?
"I've heard it said that if you bring a thimble to God, he'll fill it. If you bring a bucket to God, He'll fill that. If you bring a five-hundred gallon barrel to God, he'll fill that too." (Hybels, 103)
What am I bringing to God? What are you bringing to God?
James 4:2: "You do not have, because you do not ask God." Don't be afraid to approach Him with a barrel.
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