Jesus and many more are for us: teachers of praying...
As you pray, you reveal your understanding of God; therefore...
First: we clear our understanding of God:
He is "our Father, who are in Heaven" and today ? Challenge of LOVE...
Second: our good wishes: "may your name be held holy"
Third: we dare to ask: "give us our daily bread" and "fogive us" etc...
To end: we praise God: "the glory are yours" etc...
This prayer, like every prayer tells us much about the idea we have of God.
Is there any development since Jesus ?
As we get a new understanding of the world we may reach a new kind of prayer.
But Jesus gives us also an prayer-advice: faith-persistence is the key:
"Your faith has saved you" (Lk 7.50)
persistence means: daily prayer (whatever the weather).
And at the end: don't forget: the gift of God is His Spirit.
(And not whatever you want! / God knows what is good for you)
To have words at our disposal is good for praying - but not enough.
After you approach God actively with good chosen words -
you will discover: silence is more - you feel like a baby in the womb.
You will wake up to discover: God lives in favour of you - don't be afraid.
WORDS - SILENCE - FEEL in GOOD HANDS.
God cannot eer be captured in thought, imagination or word. Any concepts,
images or words we have about God are inadequate at best and idolatrous
at worst.
(With time we will discover all our words are very limited, they don't grasp
the reality, they only shape a model...
the child discover the world, the young shaps the world, the wise knows:
there is a difference between imagination and reality.)
There is no such "thing" like God, God is a WORD, a challenge... getting real
by your reaction... the one who plays makes the music!
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