On many Fridays we'll include a Blog Post from someone outside of HVPC speaking to our subject of deepening ones relationship with God:Today we have a word from theologian Richard Foster:
Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way
we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top"
position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we
come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control
and become incompetent... 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. That is what grace means,
and not only are we saved by it, we live by it as well. And we pray by
it.
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