Three Shoulder Taps

   A question from the Truth Project comes to my mind this morning:

   "Do you really believe what you believe is really true?"

   Another question follows:

   Does my life show that I really believe what I say is true, is actually?

   The Bible has a lot to say about prayer, and I say that prayer is important, but is it really. Is it important in my life, or are these just pious words that I write down.

   Chambers: "Have no motivation other than to know your Father in heaven. It is impossible to carry on your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer."

   I confess that I struggle with prayer. I know it is important. Jesus prayed, and the Bible has many admonitions on praying, but my life does not show its importance to me.

   Our home group at church is going through some reorganization, and, at our meeting on Thursday night, Mayre and I were handed the job of leading in the prayer times at each of our get-togethers. Despite my inadequacy in this area, we agreed to do it.

   Then I get up on early on Friday morning, go play golf all day, not giving any thought at all to prayer, and come home to find our home group leader has sent me an email directing me to the Oswald Chambers reading from yesterday, that I had not had time to read, that featured....... Prayer, of course.

   So, as I fall into bed last night, I shoot off a quick prayer, that if God wants me to get up and write this morning, before I rush off to play tennis, He will wake me up early enough to do this. He does, and I am confronted with the sad fact of my real unbelief in prayer's importance. Evidently my play time is much more so.

   Three taps on the shoulder to get with it in this area, but the question remains: Is it really important?

   God says that it is, and my response will be???????

   And my prayer is.......Help!