Today’s Devotional: We Should Pray Like Teenagers Text
Have you ever watched someone having a conversation via text messaging? They clutch their phone, pull it out every minute just to see if there are any new texts waiting for them—and when there are, they drop everything to respond.
The author of this devotional from Our Daily Bread relates Paul’s command to “pray without ceasing” to a texting teenager:
An article in The Washington Post told about a 15-year-old girl who sent and received 6,473 cell phone text messages in a single month. She says about her constant communication with friends, “I would die without it.” And she is not alone. Researchers say that US teens with cell phones average more than 2,200 text messages a month.
To me, this ongoing digital conversation offers a remarkable illustration of what prayer could and should be like for every follower of Christ. Paul seemed to be constantly in an attitude of prayer for others: “[We] do not cease to pray for you” (Col. 1:9). “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit” (Eph. 6:18). “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:17).
Read the entire devotional at RBC.org.
Have you ever met someone who prays without ceasing? Do you feel like you “live in an attitude of prayer for others?”
Not only without ceasing but with verve and enthusiasm! Until one has experienced the exhilaration of being in constant communication with God, it shall remain a foreign and distant comcept. God does hear and respond to all prayer and even has a heart for innocent misguided prayer that corrects itself with spiritual maturity. I believe that many have a concept of prayer as being on one’s knees speaking to God in King James English. God understands all languages and even colloquialism. It is not so much the words that we utter (spoken or in spirit) or our posture but what is in our hearts, as we pray. Let us not pray solely out of obligation or a sense of duty (which it is) but out of love and a desire to be closer to the Great Creator.