Jesus said to them, “When you pray…” (Luke 11:2)
Have you ever stopped to really think about prayer? I mean, what is prayer anyway? Well, it can be described in a lot of different ways. We know prayer is the way to renewal and spiritual life. Prayer is aliveness to God. It is strength, refreshment, and joy. But it is even more. Prayer draws us into a conscious, loving communion with God in which everything is experienced in a new light. Prayer is a personal dialogue with God, a spiritual breathing of the soul, a foretaste of the bliss of God’s kingdom.
You experience all of God in even the simplest of prayers. I love how C.S. Lewis puts it in Mere Christianity:
An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God – that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him. You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on – the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers.
If you want to know God, it’s quite simple: Take a moment to stop and pray.
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