Comforting Conversations
Psalm 5:3
“In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice. In the morning, I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly”
Most people have a core family member or maybe a lifelong friend who they have known since childhood. This person knows the ins and outs of your life. They’ve been with you through the first crush all the way through the one who becomes your “one flesh”. Maybe you didn’t always keep in touch super well, but they know you like the back of their hand because they have been around you your whole life! Time with them is simply comforting… homey… familiar. They are that person you’ll text or call the second a major life decision pops up or in the nervous moments before a first day.
This is what prayer can be for a child of God, but even better.
God is our Father and Creator. He hears our voices each morning and can distinguish each voice of His children as they lay their requests before Him. Then, HE ANSWERS in holy perfection according to what is best for us.
I’m sure you have all heard this before, but He knows more about you than you know about yourself! He knows you even more than the person who you were just thinking about in the paragraph above. God knows, not just the college you go to, the job you have or the job you dream for. He doesn’t just know the person you marry or who your children are. He knows more… infinitely more.
He knows your generational sins. He knows thoughts you struggle to kill daily. When you fail, He will also be full of sorrow and when you succeed He celebrates! He knows what you love, what you hate, what makes you cry, what makes you laugh. He is the comfort above all comforts. There is none like Him! Sitting in His presence is peace. It’s being completely vulnerable, known and yet, loved.
It’s home.
We know this and this is available to us DAILY. And still we, at least I, treat conversations with Him as though it is a chore. I sit awkwardly in front of Him, not really thinking about how He hears me as I drag my words along, distracted. I use prayer as a performance, for others’ ears and not God’s. (Even though He knows what is truly going on in my heart.)
These are just some of the many ways Satan and our flesh try to break the unifying soul to soul bond that prayer produces. Satan especially does not want us to receive all the blessings that prayer gives. The building of faith that it produces. The complete joy and contentment it brings. The peace surpassing understanding and the unity with His Spirit as He joyfully receives our prayers as incense on His alter.
Why would Satan want us to receive all that and let God and us, bask in more love, further bonded?
He wouldn’t. That’s why God tells us to be alert so that we can pray. He warns us to know the tactics of the devil and fight against them so the blessings of prayer can be experienced! The best part is, the more you pray, the more you want to pray, and you can never have too much of it! So, pray in all things to the Comforter who knows you inside and out. Who knows your future and your past. Who, time with, is simply comforting and homey as He hears our voice every morning (and noon and night), and lovingly answers.