Antidote

“You see, the prayer that Christ taught us to pray is the antidote to sin”.

I know I sin. I am that puddle pusher C.S. Lewis so eloquently describes as peddling in the mud while living in view of the ocean. Lets be honest…we all are! Somewhere between Paul’s “I die daily” (1 Corinthians 15:31) and “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 13:14) we find ourselves attempting active response to the Lord’s Prayer. For it is not to be by our kingdom that we live and move, but by His: His timetables, His agenda, His pre-eminence. For if God is before all things (Colossians 1:17) than I play the humble role of follower. I wait to see Him move…and I Follow. I do not instigate His will, beckoning it to submit to my own. But rather, the banner of my life is to remain: “THY Kingdom Come, THY will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven”.

Amen?

~Deep thoughts by a shallow guy…
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