I grew up in a small country town and know a little bit about ponds and lakes. They are fun places to be adventurous. One favorite past-time at ponds and lakes was skipping rocks across the top of the water. The more flat the rock, the better the skip. The skip is judged by how far it goes. Distance was the goal, really the only goal in the game.
A life of prayer stretches across the pond, all the way across the pond. When we pray for a situation, mission work, or and individual how far do you see God’s involvement in that for which you have prayed? The truth is, God uses our prayers to stretch farther than we can imagine, in our lives and in the lives of others. God uses prayer to bring grace into other areas of our lives and He does the same for those whom we pray for. Like most of (nearly all) that God is doing, we don’t see His hand orchestrating the symphony of creation. We just know He is doing it.
The life of prayer–of communing with God, is a walk with the Divine that opens infinity. Sound a bit crazy, or too theological? It probably does to those who have never considered the magnitude of what Christ accomplished at the cross, resurrection, and His ascension. The limitations we put on ourselves, in fact, the limitations of all creation do not apply to the One who created all things. We know this to be a fundamental truth, but do we bring it home, into our prayer closet? I challenge you to contemplate the invitation described by Jesus in Matthew 6:6. That invitation is an invite to commune with the Eternal Father, and so it is an invite to step into His realm. Sit with the Sovereign One, the Infinite One. Go ahead, remove the walls of impossibilities of prayer. This is the living God whom you are communing with, and He has invited you to inquire of Him.
Go ahead and shut the world out by closing the proverbial closet door. Accept the invitation from your God, the Infinite One. Jesus has made it all possible.
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