The Problem with our Prayer

I shared this picture a couple of weeks ago on my Facebook page thinking: Wow, that's so true! Today, I still believe it's true, but it's become apparent to me how true it really is. When I shared the picture I was in a short season of my life where I was praying a lot more than I had been and was building my prayer life up. Being a seminary student you would think it would easy to keep the prayer season going. I have found it to be quite the opposite. 

Now, don't get me wrong. I love everything I'm learning about in seminary, but I'm learning so much about so many different things in such a short period of time that I actually burned out a little on my spiritual life. My bible reading outside of what I had for seminary dropped to next to nothing. My prayer... Well it was about the same as my bible reading. And my spiritual life felt dry to be honest. It was just so drab and it felt so boring.

However I kept thinking of this picture. "The only enduring motive for prayer is that God is worthy to be sought. The only enduring motive for prayer is that God is worthy to be sought." I would see all the need for prayer in my own world and think about how I needed to pray for it but then think about how my own prayer life was struggling. Then I would remember: "The only enduring motive for prayer is that God is worthy to be sought." 

I think this is one of the truest statements I've heard in a long time, but the only way to get that motivation is to remember why He is worthy. And how else are we going to remember why He is worthy, but by reading His Word. God created us and we sinned. God called us back to him and we turned away. God had us taken away and we called out to him. God sent His son to save us and we rejected him. God's Son died on a cross for us and we realized it was too late. Then God rose His son on the third day in victory over the grave and we accepted the new life He gave us. God taught us how to live and we forgot to remember Him... 

God sent Jesus to die on the cross for us so that we might spend eternity with Him. He bridged the gap that we never could. He freely offers us a new life we could never earn. He, and He alone, is Worthy! Will we remember? Will we pray? 

"For God so loved the world that He sent His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him, might not die, but have everlasting life." -John 3:16

He is worthy!