Dec 15: Light For The Day - "help@GOD.heaven"

"Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds
of prayers and requests ..."
-- Ephesians 6:18 

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If e-mail isn't the greatest communication invention
since the Bic pen, I don't know what is. For those
of us who don't like to talk on the phone, it is
absolutely the perfect way to communicate. It is
accurate, it is easy, and boy, is it fast! I've shaved
days of waiting off my schedule by using e-mail.

Within a matter of minutes and sometimes seconds
if I catch the e-mail recipient at his or her computer,
I can transfer pages of information, ask a question
about it, and have the answer back before you can
say Bill Gates.

Wouldn't it be great to have an e-mail line to God?
You could just type your request in, address it to
help@GOD.Heaven, and off it would go.

But wait. Why bother? We've got something even
better. We have direct access to God Himself.
No middle computer. No need for wires or
uplinks or satellites. No need for funny codes or
aol.com or anything.

Just you and God. Person-to-person in a way
AT&T could never provide. Heart-to-heart.

At the end of Paul's great explanation of the
armor of God in Ephesians 6, he put an
exclamation point on what he said about being
equipped. He explained the always available
tool of prayer. He made it clear that the opportunity
to pray is available all the time to every Christian.

"Keep on praying," Paul said. For ourselves.
For others. In praise. Making requests.
Asking for help. Asking for direction.

Prayer. It makes e-mail look as old-fashioned as a 
quill pen. Try it. It's always there, and it always
works. 

-- DB (Campus Journal)

Reflextion:

- Did I send more e-mails out today than prayers?
- How much time do I spend in prayer each day? 
- How valuable would it be to begin a prayer
journal--just to jot down what to pray for,
- what I did pray for, and what answers I received?
- Shall I try it? 
- What sometimes knocks me off-line in my prayers? 

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If you think e-mail's fast-try praying.
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"Rejoice in your hope,
be patient in tribulation,
be constant in prayer."
-- Romans 12:12 (RSV)

"Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything
by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let
your requests be made known to God."
-- Philippians 4:6 (RSV)