Most of us have to admit that we don't pray that often about our deepest needs. We get faint hearted. We begin to pray, but we soon find our minds wandering and we realize we're using empty phrases. We start to feel hypocritical, and soon we give up. It seems better to live with almost any difficult situation than to continue to pray ineffectively.
We reach out to God, because we know how he is holding out loving arms toward us. But then we often fall back and try to face our difficulties in our own power because at some basic and perhaps unconscious level we doubt if God really can make a difference in the problems were facing.
It is well and good to believe that God loves us and wants to help us. The question remains: is He able to do so? Because if He isn't, all the good will in heaven and earth will make no difference.
We reach out to God, because we know how he is holding out loving arms toward us. But then we often fall back and try to face our difficulties in our own power because at some basic and perhaps unconscious level we doubt if God really can make a difference in the problems were facing.
It is well and good to believe that God loves us and wants to help us. The question remains: is He able to do so? Because if He isn't, all the good will in heaven and earth will make no difference.
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