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“But when you pray, you should go into your room and close the door. Then pray to your Father. He is there in that private place. He can see what is done in private, and he will reward you.” – Matthew 6:6 ERV
Devotion
What’s the most important thing that you do each day? Is it caring for screaming children? Is it carrying out a plan at work? Is it doing your homework? We all do a lot of things each day that we feel are so important, and often they are. We have a habit of loading ourselves with responsibilities. It makes sense. The more we do, the better things go, right?
While the Bible is filled with calls to action, the most important thing we can do each day is to stop! What does that look like? It looks like what Jesus talks about in this verse, to get alone with God and to pray. Now, Jesus isn’t talking about the routine prayers that we teach our kids to pray before dinner or bedtime. He’s not talking about kneeling at our bed for a minute to cross it off our list or raising our anxiety-ridden requests as we drift off to sleep. He’s talking about quality time dedicated to the Father, focused only on Him, maybe even sacrificing sleep so that we can hear Him in the stillness.
Now, why is that so difficult? It’s because what Jesus asks us to do goes against everything that is logical to us as humans. We’re used to the responsibility, and for us to be asked to do nothing, is almost offensive. Stillness is death to the flesh. Prayer crucifies the flesh.
We, as Christians, are called to live counter-culturally and often counter-logically. We’re not called to trust in ourselves, we’re called to trust in our Father. Prayer is the ultimate test of our faith and like all the other promises in Scripture, there’s a reward for trusting and leaning on Him. Often, it’s what we need to do more than any other thing.
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