Yesterday was my tuesday. my day out of the week that I can hole up and spend hours thinking about things from the week, mostly praying. and of course sleep in too. I love both. I think I've shared this so I will move on.
Yesterday I was continuing on my journey of Luke 12 and came to the verse that says "seek first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you."
seek: 1. To attempt to find something. 2. to search for and find someone or something. 3. attempt or desire to obtain or achieve (something).
I thought about this word that Jesus throws around a lot. Thought about people's thoughts on prayer mostly. What it means to pray and know God. But, in my definitions of prayer God I think I have often forgotten what it means to "seek" - which I believe is what prayer and our relationship with God really is comprised of. Jesus asks us to seek Him, not to have the answers or feel like we even need them. (He says it's His good pleasure to give them to us anyhow!) It is the attempt to find Him. To search for and find Him. It's the desire to find Him. It's not really important if we get the answers (well, a correct theology and thoughts on who God is of course is important but...) - it's all about asking the questions.
I was talking to a friend yesterday, and I hope my friend doesn't mind me sharing this, but I said something to him/her last night that sorta hit a chord - at least in me. This person was talking about prayer and how he/she needed to do more of it and feeling a little bad about not doing it more, and my response to him/her was - You need to find out how you pray.
I think I'm realizing that the church at large doesn't really teach us how to pray, and it's a handicap to so many believers. We are supposed to have this relationship with God, but more often than not I see people who are having a relationship with Him through service and not knowing why that isn't working out so hot. You know, through works. Through trying to be a good person, have the answers, and get it right. But we need a mind shift into knowing first who we are in Christ. Figuring out that it's not about the answers but about asking the questions. (ie. prayer) There's a figuring out of how to pray (and I think for everyone - since comprised of different personalities, weaknesses, limitations - praying can look slightly different) that needs to happen for the Bride to know who she is.
Seek FIRST the Kingdom...and all these other things shall be added unto you.
1 comment:
Hmm...how do I pray? Sometimes I worry that I am to informal in my prayers. But then when I try to be formal it feels unnatural and contrived. Like I'm praying to an audience. I don't like how that feels. I think you are right. Learning how we are supposed to pray isn't as straight forward is it seems.
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