Grace and peace be unto you!
Matthew 6: 5 “When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites. They love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners and pray loudly. They want people to see them. The truth is, that’s all the reward they will get. 6 But when you pray, you should go into your room and close the door. Then pray to your Father. He is there in that private place. He can see what is done in private, and he will reward you.
Friends as we approach this lent season it is really time for us to look inside ourselves and search for our true motives. Why are we doing the things we are doing? Is it to get applause? Is it to see our name in lights? What is motivating us to do whatever it is that we do each day?
Matthew asks us to examine our motives in prayer. Are we praying to be heard by men or by God? As we enter into this Lent season it is a real-time to be introspective about our motives. The scripture tells us to pray in our room with the door closed. Now, we don't need to push this to the extreme in saying that we should never have corporate prayer. However, there is a way in which we should conduct our prayer. When we are talking to good friends we aren't loud and rambunctious. We lean in and listen and share intimate conversation. The writer is inviting us to have an intimate conversation with our father with no pretenses. Just you and your father. Private, intimate, and sincere. Love you to life.
Until tomorrow #liveBlessed
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