There is such a need for the body of Christ to be united. Prayer should be engaging and active, worshipful and from the heart, not sitting silently and asking God for a hundred different blessings.
Our society is fragmented to no end. We have all the conveniences, all the privacy, all the comforts, but all these things just serve to further separate us from each other. We are quickly forgetting what it means to be one body - it means more than sitting in the same building with other people for 2 hours a week. There is no dependence on one another in our culture and it seems like the more we have, the less we give. Let us strive to get back the spirit of community and to come close together with the body of Christ - we can't do it alone. Each part needs each other part to be effective for the Kingdom. Seek each other out.
Here's some BTA lyrics that I find appropriate and extremely beautiful.
We exchange our faith for rational thought
We trade our conscience for advanced reasoning
But there's no love in thought
Nothing that lasts in deduction
There's no hope in justifying wrong
Just death in rationalism
I am not of this world
And science cannot explain me
I will transcend death
This body will not contain me
The cancer of mind-worship will leave your spirit to decay
Thank you God for the times when things feel right. And help me to persevere in the many times when they don't.
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