IDOLATRY

Is God difficult to talk to or are we just talking to our idols as God? I’ll guess your definition of prayer is the same as mine, which at its core is simply a communication between God and man. But how exactly does one communicate with a King Spirit?

Just when I thought I had finally locked down the act of praying, the Holysprit exposed my idolatry. The issue wasn’t the act but the how I was praying. A brief insight into my typical prayer schedule : Worship, thanksgiving, bible study & prayer(in my knowledge and in the holyghost). Seems solid right? So I thought. 

All of those expression above consisted of one theme, my genuine desire to reverence God based off my gained knowledge and understanding of him which I honestly don’t think is wrong. But when my prayer life begins to depend solely on my knowledge of Christ, the whole purpose of prayer is missed.

In Matthew 6:9-13, when Jesus taught us to pray, the focus of his gaze was solely on the father from the beginning of the prayer till the end. Not once did he rely on his knowledge of who the father is. From acknowledging God as his source, to reverencing his name, to praying his ways be done on earth(You/I) as in heaven, to depending on him for the bread needed for the day, to walking in his footsteps of forgiveness and to confidently relying on his leadership to protect him from evil and temptation, the whole time OUR FATHER was the focus.

Matthew 7:7 Ask and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Not ask, seek or knock for the God I think he his. Simply ASK, SEEK, AND KNOCK and he promises that we will find him. When all that we seek is solely Jesus the gospel solves itself.

Does this make my/your already gained knowledge of Jesus futile? No, but in the vastness of my/your knowledge is my/your unglorified flesh prone to seeking glory which leads to idolatry. And for Jesus to be glorified, he alone must the center of our gaze.

IRE