Prayer is one of the most fundamental disciplines of the Christian life, and yet it is one of the most challenging as well. Often, we will waffle between using prayer as some kind of wish list or really only praying when we find ourselves in trouble. What if we viewed prayer more as a means of personal formation and less as something to get what we want?

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One of the most amazing doctrines of the Christian church is the doctrine of the incarnation. The idea that our God would actually come to us is an amazing thing when you think that in most other religions the individual is responsible for finding or getting to god or the divine. In ours, it’s the other way around. Knowing that also calls us to view ministry in a certain way – we have a ministry that should “go to.”

Nobody enjoys suffering, and yet, it is something we all go through in our lives. We would love for our faith in Jesus to protect us from such difficulty, but ironically, sometimes it is that very faith that leads us into suffering and challenge. We can take hope, though, in the truth that Jesus knows what it is to suffer, and he is with us as we walk through those difficult times.

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It can be really easy in life to become comfortable with where we are and who we’re with and forget that we still have much to learn. As followers of Jesus, we are called to life-long submission to Christ and learning in order to become more and more like Him. If we don’t have an attitude and posture of humility, this is impossible. We must recognize our desperate and continued need for God in order to grow in Him.

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