Date: April 19, 2011 12:32 AM
Topic: +DEV+ I'm Right Here
I'm Right Here
"Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live" (Psalm 116:2).
Scripture Focus: Psalm 116
What a wonderful reality for us to take into our hearts! Every time we pray, the Lord is listening. He's lending us His ear, granting us His full attention. He's poised to answer us whenever we call. We can be like little children and talk to Him with uncomplicated simplicity about anything we have on our hearts. We don't have to know how to pray, as if prayer were some sort of skill we need to master.
One of C.S. Lewis' downfalls was overanalyzing and complicating things like prayer. He saw the same problem in someone who wrote to him for advice. He gave her the answer he'd found for himself: "Don't bother about the idea that God 'has known for millions of years' exactly what you are about to pray. That isn't what it's like. God is hearing you now, just as simply as a mother hears a child. There's no reason to bring these problems into it. You have gone into the temple, and one day in his courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. You've found him, as always, there."
Insight: "The name of the city from that time on will be: THE LORD IS THERE" (Ezekiel 48:35).
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