A Praying Life by Paul E. Miller

Author:Paul E. Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Prayer
Publisher: The Navigators
Published: 2017-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Even as I was writing, God began to answer my prayer for wisdom. As I wrote those questions, a Scripture came to mind—“Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house” (Proverbs 24:27). I realized that writing a book was like building a house. Then I wrote “Book = house.” A book is like a house—nice but not necessary. We could always rent. So I postponed writing the book. A year later, one of my professors let me do an independent study course, where I wrote the first eight chapters of a book on Jesus.

At the heart of this journal entry is weakness. I was not just asking God for advice—that would have left me in control. I was keenly aware that I didn’t have the resources to face the next two years of my life. I wasn’t even asking God to be my partner. I was bowing as I asked. I was abiding. Such dependence is not natural for me. A number of years ago Jill wanted to get me a T-shirt that said, “Often Wrong, but Never in Doubt.”

Writing those questions in my prayer notebook was a form of surrender. I was at odds with the spirit of our age and its quest for unlimited freedom and self-expression. Instead, I wanted to be in harmony with my Creator. As Einstein observed: “Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”[2] I wanted to keep in step with my Father’s music. I wanted my true bread to come from heaven.

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