Prayer can be challenging and confusing. Often, we don’t know what to say, or how to say it, or feel that we are too “bad” or “unworthy” to talk to God. However, the opposite is true. Why would the righteous need a merciful, loving God?

Why would healthy people need a doctor? God knows what is in our heart and on our lips before we think or speak it. He knows us intimately.

But He desires a relationship with us, and in order to deepen that relationship, we need to communicate.

Not because he doesn’t know us, but because He wants to build intimacy, and because He knows it is what WE need.

If we look to scripture, David throughout the Psalms cries out to God and shares both his wonder and awe of Him but also asks God hard questions, such as why certain tragedies are happening to him, or how he feels lost and forsaken

By grace and through faith we are drawn into God’s loving arms and no matter where the road  leads – even when it briefly winds – He is walking with us every step of the way. Even when we are faithless, He is faithful; that is something to be praised.

Similarly, Job, in great distress, demands answers from God.  prayer – talking to God about anything and everything is what He longs for, but also what is so soothing for our own hearts.

As we come to meekly, and then boldly, trust the Creator of the Universe, we realize that the sin of the world will never satisfy.

Prayer will help us keep that connection and even in the darkest days we can draw comfort that there is someone who will always listen…..