VITAL INTERCESSION

It’s amazing how much smarter and more loving than God we are. “We’re not smarter or more loving than God” you say. Well, we sure pray like we are. We pray like God isn’t paying attention or that He is out of touch with modern times or that He just doesn’t understand or care. We instruct Him on whom to cure, bless and save and, often, how specifically to do it. How egotistical we are.

But, you say, we are told to pray and intercede. And so we are. But God doesn’t need our direction, He wants us to come to Him because He desires our fellowship and wants us to have His mind. He also wants us to bond with those for whom we pray. Nothing brings us closer to another than to intercede with the Creator for that person and nothing brings us closer to our God. As we share our love and concern for another with our God, He shares his love and perspective with us. We certainly don’t always learn the details of His plans,  but we get a sense of His heart.

Our pastor pointed out yesterday how having personally experienced a hurt, a pain or a loss helps us to better intercede for one who has suffered that same hurt, pain or loss. More knowledge and experience with the Creator aids us in a like manner. As we spend time with Him, we gain more of his perspective and a bit more of His wisdom and His love for each of us.

It is vital that we intercede not so much because of the vast needs in our world, but because of the vast need within us. Prayer does not so much cause God to act in the lives of men in ways He would not have; but rather focuses our attention on the multitude of ways He is working and acting, actions we would otherwise miss.