Prayer
is a Bulldozer
Life is
full of, let’s call it, “life’s junk.” We can feel overwhelmed with decisions
we need to make or have made. Then there are people. Difficult people we deal
with every day or maybe people we avoid due to pains or relationship
problems—maybe we are the difficult one? Money troubles that awaken us at
night—there just doesn't ever seem to be enough. How about Fear? The list could go on and on and on.
For the Christian, God has
provided a bulldozer. A bulldozer that will doze away all the “life’s junk.”
It's called prayer. Am I saying, that prayer fixes things? Not necessarily.
Prayer itself fixes nothing. But prayer connects us to a God Who does fix
things. Being connected to God, not only as Savior but also as Lord and Friend,
brings a “Yet none of these things move me” calming.
Col
2:19 says there are those who have “lost connection with the Head.” Not that
they have lost their salvation, what they have lost is their connection. The NASV and the NKJV both translate
"connection" as “not holding fast" to the Head. In Psalm 73,
Asaph—both choir director and prophet during David’s time, wrote [2] “But as
for me, my feet had almost stumbled; my steps had nearly slipped…[17] Until I
went into the sanctuary of God; Then I understood…” Verse 17 is the pivot in
this psalm. Asaph is wrapped up in his perspective until he goes into the
sanctuary, then he understands and his whole perspective throughout the rest of
the psalm is different.
Prayer
is a means to an end, and not the goal in and of itself—it is not a duty,
prayer is a privilege. Prayer connects us to God through relationship;
there He shares His secrets with us; there He transforms our perspective
to His; there live begins to make sense again. There, in His sanctuary, the
“life’s junk” gets bulldozed. What is left reveals a path, our path, in the
midst of what once looked impassable and daunting.
Go into
His sanctuary. Hear what He has to say. Allow His secrets to change your perspective. He is waiting.
