Now, Why Do You Pray?

Now, where does this subject come home to you?

Do you pray much at all?

Continually? With urgency?

Is there a need you’ve abandoned, a request on which you’ve given up?

A place in your life where God seems silent?

Perhaps this man’s experience will help. An anonymous Confederate soldier wrote:

“I asked God for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak, that I might learn to serve. I asked for health, that I might do great things; I was given infirmity, that I might do better things. I asked for wealth, that I might be happy; I was given poverty, that I might be wise. I asked for power, that I might earn the praise of men; I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God.

“I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life; I was given life, that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing I asked for, but all I hoped for. Despite myself, my prayers were answered. And I am, among all men, most richly blessed.”

So can we be, too.

This is the promise of God.

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