Prayer

"The greatest tragedy in life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer." F.B. Meyer

I have recently been reading about prayer. Actually I am on my fifth book on the topic and have discovered more questions than answers. I guess that is true when you think about the idea of prayer. It is both simple and completely complex. Also incredibly mystical in that we have the amazing privilege to enter into the throne room of God because of Jesus and lay before Him all of our thoughts, concerns and worries.

Also recently at a conference the speaker was talking about how God is transcendant and yet so intimate with each one of us. How many times we speak to God so casually forgetting just who we are talking to. But isn't that the amazing grace we have been given. That the Lord invites us into his presence and tells us just to come.

I think what I have been most struck by is just that...we are invited to come. Come and seek Him and his presence. That through our interaction with the Lord if we just keep coming to Him something happens.

I wish I had some grand story to tell of an answer to prayer or some way that God is moving and showing up for I know that He is. But for now I know that He is working and that I will continue to come to Him. For Jesus said to ask, seek, and knock. I continue to pray that my eyes would be open to the ways that God is answering for many times I think I cannot see the answers because it doesn't fit within the ways I imagine.

So I continue on my quest to read and learn from others in their journey of prayer.