AN AWESOME PRAYER

Prov. 30:7-9 Oh God, I beg two favors from you before I die. First, help me never to tell a lie. Second, give me neither poverty nor riches! For if I grow rich, I may deny you and say, “Who is the LORD?” And if I am poor, I may steal and thus insult God’s holy name.  NLT

      What an awesome prayer! Think about it. Would you dare ask the Lord to help you never to tell a lie? Do you ALWAYS tell the truth? Be honest with yourself. Do you? Do you always tell the truth when you are backed up into a corner with no way out, even if it cost you pain or discomfort? Do you justify not telling the truth when it may benefit you or perhaps someone else? How is it possible to ALWAYS tell the truth?

      Truthfulness comes from the integrity of the heart before God. The only way we can always tell the truth is to always have a pure and holy heart before God. We must strive to keep the Lord first and foremost in our thinking. Is it possible? Yes. Is it easy? No. If we keep our hearts and minds focused on Christ we can do it, but we need His help to do that and that is why we pray and ask Him to help us.

      The other thing we ought to pray for is contentment with what the Lord has provided us with. If we long for what we don’t have and make it our goal to obtain it, we can easily lose our grip on the Lord. Contentment is living in the Lord at the moment without concern for what might be or what was. It is living life to the fullest where you are at and letting the Lord take care of the rest. If you are not at peace with the Lord and yourself now, you will never be at peace with Him when you have more or less of what you have now.