God is the 'Doer and the Giver'

 Sister Ruth Burrows

When we feel that our performance is hopeless, we get discouraged and conclude that, whatever be the general truth that prayer is needful, for me at any rate, no doubt because of my inadequacy, it is a waste of time and I had better do something really useful for God. Once again, we are forgetting the truth that God is the doer and the giver. Christian prayer is nothing other than being present to God so that God can give to us. The only thing that matters is that we believe this and stay there, regardless of how we feel or don't feel.

I suggest that the most profound expression we can give to faith is to set aside an inviolable time each day, no matter how short, when we each deliberately affirm God's absolute love for us now, here, and stay there in blind, trusting faith, receiving it. This will mean learning the precious lesson that, in fact, we have no inner resources, learning to live happily without any assurances from within ourselves but casting our whole weight onto infinite love. This is to glorify God, for it glorifies God's true nature which is love. "I do believe Lord, help Thou my little belief!' 

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