December 10, 2012

  • asking.

    "But they say I ask too much of You..."

    'Don't you listen to them! You just come to Me with everything... And *I* will tell you when you're complaining.'

    Shepherd's Daughter, telling me about a conversation with the Father.

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    Taking Jesus at His word that God is really our Father, we come as His child, telling Him our need in the most simple direct way, asking His help.

    A little child who has no shyness or hesitation about asking his parents for what he needs is unselfconciously revealing his helplessness... It's the cap-in-hand stance which we resist because it diminishes us -- a certain amount of pride and self has to go for us to ask for help -- whether of God or of another human being.

    God insists we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking. 

    Catherine Marshall, Adventures In Prayer.

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    Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;

    And let those who love Your salvation say continually,

    “Let God be magnified!”

    But I am poor and needy;

    Make haste to me, O God!

    You are my help and my deliverer;

    O Lord, do not delay.

    Psalm 70: 4-5