Reverence and Awe

Good Morning & Evening
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Good Morning!

What a refreshing treatment Spurgeon gives us hear of The Lords Prayer but more importantly a sober thought about our own prayer lives.

First I think it's important to acknowledge that in the life of most Christians this is one area where we tend to fall short especially if we are not being intentional about how we approach our prayer life. We are usually quick to tell people we'll be in prayer for them or certain things almost to support a clockwork like, many times a day, preplanned prayer life that would make Martin Luther jealous, but in reality that is almost never the case. If indeed that is what your prayer life is like then praise the Lord and press on brother/sister, but I doubt it!
Most likely your prayer life would reflect that of most Christians. A fighting for time, daily struggle to even acknowledge God rather spending long devoted times of focused prayer for the many things we know should be on our prayer lists.

Spurgeon offers here one remedy for the struggling lukewarm prayer life. He presents The Lords Prayer to us pointing out the process and focus of this prayer lesson Chris gives us here in Matthew. The process and focus is a heart of worship from beginning to end. Growing ever more deeper in the revelation of the majesty of God from his adopting us into his family to his ability in this world and in our lives like the grand crescendo of the philharmonic ending with a triumphant "for thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever Amen!"

We serve a God who hears our prayers:

"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. and if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him." (1John 5 14-15)

May the majesty of God recapture our hearts this day and lead us to his throne room where he tells us to "boldly come" making our request known to Him.

Good Evening -

I think these two go together quite brilliantly.
This evenings devotion is about Seeing and finding the Lord. It is one thing to seek Him but to find him, to look upon his majesty and be set in awe of his greatness is truly life changing. I say these two go together brilliantly because I think it is in this moment of finding and gazing upon His magnificent beauty that the whole of our Christian lives are set ablaze in every area: serving, worshiping, prayer, studying His word, ministering to others...
Never is there a greater time of devotion and spiritual closeness than when I have come to see and focus on the greatness of God. Everything else in the Christian life just becomes a gift that enhances that closeness.

May we seek and find his pure cleansing majesty this day as we walk in the gardens of scripture and may it quicken our hearts to praise and worship.


God bless!
jeff paisano