Author Albert Richardson once wrote, “A traveler in China visited a pagan temple on a great feast day. There were many worshippers of a hideous idol which was enclosed inside a sacred shrine. The visitor noticed that most of the devotees brought small pieces of paper on which prayers were written. They wrapped these prayers into mud balls and flung them at the idol. He was told if the mud balls stick to the idol, then the prayers would be answered. If the mud ball fell off, then the prayers were rejected by the god.

“We may smile at this peculiar way of testing the acceptability of a prayer, but is it not a fact that the majority of Christian men and women who pray to the Living God know very little about prevailing prayer? Yet prayer is the key that unlocks the door of God’s treasure house.

“All real growth in the spiritual life, all real temptation, all confidence and peace in the presence of difficulties and dangers, all repose of spirit in times of great disappointment or loss, all habitual communion with God , depend upon the secret of private prayer.”

Jesus told His disciples that, “Men ought always to pray and not faint” (Luke 18:1). In light of these words of Jesus, isn’t it truly beyond our most intensified and detailed comprehension that a perfectly sinless, holy God even cares to communicate with us?

The blood of Jesus Christ is so powerfully thorough when it comes to cleansing the grossest, most gruesome filth of our thoughts and actions, that it should provoke an inner demand that we communicate daily and often with Him in all things. If you placed my life under a microscope in an effort to detect the smallest of my sins, and if you searched out my most distant past using the Hubble Telescope, you wouldn’t find a trace or speck of my sins. That slays my ego.

Kneel Often
Pastor Huck