WHICH HAT?

By Rick Mathes

Luke 1:1 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile an account of the things accomplished among us,

Don’t confuse prayer as a dry, lifeless written speech to recite is perfect King James or a litany of words you repeat over and over again. It is a communication that God takes notice of. The question is, “Who is praying?”

I like to feel as though I am God’s child as I approach the loving and tender Father I never had. He’s my “Daddy” (Abba) and I am his son. That secure dependence gives me assurance that He will answer me in love even if I need a belt to my backside. I ache for Him to approve and be proud of me.

The most natural “hat to remove” is the one you are wearing when you step into His house of prayer. There are many “synagogues of Satan” that pass themselves off as Christian or Catholic Churches. To be sure, I know our feet as believers always stand on holy ground and with our eyes closed we enter our own private chapel to worship. So wherever you are is Church!

It’s hard to think like a subject of a King because we don’t have such a heritage. It is akin to a slave to a master which in our times has a negative connotation. But the fact remains that we must drop to our faces, throw our crown at His feet and cry, “Only you O lamb of God are worthy!”

We are literally beggars that know where the daily manna is. Dr. Bob and Bill W. had it right when they said that it is “one day at a time.” Biblically our Lord only gives us enough grace for today. There’s nothing we can do about yesterday and today will join yesterday if we can just hole on to the cross until tomorrow. It is our duty to let others know where the bread of life is.

Lastly, we are sinners on our way to a well-deserved hell without a savior. I learned in boxing to see the punch coming and then counter-punch. Applied to this devotional, if implies that we need to be so grounded in the Word that we see the sin coming and drop to our knees in prayer.