When Do I Pray?

Read this slowly, once or twice, for its truth to sink in. Be patient with the language - it's a little fancy-shmancy because it was written in the 18th century -- but it's worth your concentration.

"Are we not of the number of those who... have no object in their prayers but temporal benefits, those who pray earnestly for the fatness of the earth but never ask for the dew of heaven?

Events & circumstances awaken our religion, as though there were no need to pray to God except in illness & sorrow. As soon as affairs take a turn for the better and the danger is past, our devotion vanishes; the most we think of doing is to thank God for the successful end of our troubles; after a short act of gratitude we forget Him, and think of nothing but our pleasures....

God is forgotten as soon as our needs are supplied, as soon as our evils are averted and our blessings secured.

Jean Nicolas Grou
1795


How much do I pray about my life in Christ vs. the concerns of my everyday life? Ouch.

Taste and see that the LORD is good;
blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.
Psalm 34:8