Oswald Chambers: Prayer - A Holy OccupationSample

By what right do we become a “royal priesthood”? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared to leave ourselves resolutely alone and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual grubbing on the inside to see whether we are what we ought to be generates a self-centered, morbid type of Christianity, not the robust, simple life of the child of God.

In regard to prayer, we are apt to be apologetic and apathetic, complex and confused; yet what a splendid audacity a child has, and that is what our Lord taught us to have.

Reflection Question: With whom, or in what situation, do I need to become less self-centered and more God-centered?

Quotations taken from My Utmost for His Highest and Christian Discipline, vol. 2, © Discovery House Publishers