PRAY WITHOUT CEASING
Lord, I have to acknowledge that I often find it so difficult to pray, let alone to pray without ceasing. I sometimes feel a sense of relief when some other legitimate - even "spiritual" - option pops into my mind. I love you. I need you. In my deepest being I know you love me and you want to spend time with me. Yet my own heart is so fickle when it comes to spending time with you.
Father God, I guess I'm much the same with my wife, too. I love her dearly and would be devastated if our relationship ended. Yet communicating at depth and with any degree of consistency with Bev is something that I do not do well or often and something that she misses so much.
Lord, I find that doing things for Bev comes easier than devoting quality communication time with her. Yet her desire is that I do less for her and spend more time with her.
Is that the way it is with us, too, Lord? Am I too programmed into doing things for you and not spending time with you?
Change my heart, O God, and enable me to co-operate with that process. Please place within my heart a passion to be with you that is greater than my need to work for you.
