Each of us has many responsibilities. Each of us has goals we must accomplish, tasks we must perform, jobs we must complete, relationships we must nurture. We often find ourselves pulled this way and that, spread too thin across too many competing duties. And with so much to do, we can easily begin to wonder whether prayer is an appropriate use of scarce time. Wouldn’t it be better to give my attention to something that would let me cross something off my to-do list?
To even ask the question is to show that we haven’t yet understood the unique importance of prayer. We haven’t yet come to believe, as Ryle says, that “no time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.” Yet Ryle meant it not just as a statement but as an exhortation, adding, “Let us be sure that no time is so well-spent in every day, as that which we spend upon our knees!”
Let’s be certain that our lives display the priority of prayer, the priority of speaking to our good and gracious Father who loves to hear from his children.
