Texting God

Do you text God? I do. I send him little 140-character-sized prayers throughout my day as things come up. Usually something like the following:

• “thx for the food.”
• “come quick. tired of all the drama.”
• “plz forgive my sins. sry.”
• “help me be a witness to my friend right now. ill open my mouth, just put the words there.”

Now we all know God’s got the best plan out there… more bars in ALL places. He’ll receive all those little text-prayers.

But putting cheesy metaphors aside, he’s the creator of the universe. He wants us to come before him with reverence and worship. When the Bible gives account of someone in the presence of God, it usually says that the person was “greatly afraid.” In Revelation, we have an account of what it’s like to approach the throne of God, and it’s scary! There is lighting everywhere, and weird creatures, and a sea, and all kinds of crazy stuff.

Keep prayer in perspective. It’s amazing that we can connect with almighty God at any moment, but it’s not a privilege we should take lightly. And if that’s the majority of our prayer life, our relationship with God is severely lacking.

I mean, God made the twittering birds, but I think he expects a little more out of his children.

[ Revelation 4:2-8 ]