Matthew Chapter Three tells us that one of the temptations that the devil taunted Jesus with is where he says: “If you are the son of God, then turn these stones into bread.” Did it ever occur to you as the reader, that since Jesus is the Son of God, that he would just go to the market and buy bread, or perhaps make bread or ask his Mother to make him bread. It is not as if Jesus forgot to take bread with Him into the desert, he was in the desert on a forty day fast. Bread was not on Jesus’ menu.
Are our prayers taunting to God when we pray? Do we pray with a sense of desperation or panic? God, if you really do exist then please ….
Maybe it will be important to examine how our prayers are more similar to those taunts of the devil rather than as someone who has the Kingdom of God within us. How would our prayers differ if we came to God from that perspective? Enjoy the moment as you ponder this question on this beginning day of Lent.
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