Good morning…
This quote from Sarah Young’s Jesus Always mirrors the quote from Richard Foster’s book Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home.
“The truth of the matter is,
we all come to prayer
with a tangled
mass of motives—
altruistic and selfish,
merciful and hateful,
loving and bitter.
Frankly, this side of eternity
we will never unravel
the good from the bad,
the pure from the impure.
God is big enough
to receive us
with all our mixture.”
Our mashed-up mixture is always received, fully received, by the God who sees, knows and loves every ounce of us. What an incredibly freeing gift.
“We all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives,” says Richard.
“I can smooth out all of the tangled-up places,” Sarah amplifies the voice of our big enough God.
The waves of death surrounded me; the torrents of terror tugged at me. The sorrows of the grave tightly tangled me; the snares of death met me. In my time of need I called upon the Eternal One; I called to my True God for help. He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry came to His ears (2 Samuel 22:5-7, VOICE).
Repeating this one vulnerable step – coming to prayer all tangled-up – might we find God’s smoothed-out path to our heart’s true home?
…Sue…
