God's Posture

Matthew 6:7&8

What do you know about your Father? What can you say , "I know this, and I'd stake my life on it." Could you stake your life on his listening ability? If we don't babble like the pagans it is because we know who we are speaking to. It's our Father and He wants to hear us. "For your Father knows what you need before you ask him" (Matthew 6:8). He's prepared to listen; he already knows our needs.

Then what is the point of praying? If he already knows what we need, why pray at all?
Why can't he just scatter the gifts he has for everyone? In some ways he already does--"He makes the sun rise on both good and bad people. And he sends rain for the ones who do right and for the ones who do wrong" (Matthew 5:45). But God wants to be more than just a dispenser of goods.

So we must ask. We must engage with God. But our asking and engaging is not because he's unwilling to listen. "For your Father knows what you need" reveals the Father's posture. He's bent toward us, ready.

We should not feel like the pagans that we're pounding on the door of a deaf God. No our knuckles are just starting to touch the wood and his hand is already on the door knob ready to open it.

**Our electricity was out last night, and I couldn't go online nor did I have a single functioning flashlight in the house. I went back way way old school and wrote most of the post above by candlelight.