A PRAYER
My dearest Father,
It is so good to say “my” Father. To know your love for me is that personal. You number the stars in the sky, but you also number the hairs on my head. You know every word I say, before I say it – and why I say it; you understand me perfectly, even when I don’t understand myself. You know exactly what I need at any given time. And you care for me with the warm, embracing care of a father for his most beloved child. I can’t at all comprehend such love. That the Almighty God, who created the universe, galaxy upon galaxy, would have time for me, would care so intimately for me. 
You created me because you wanted me. I’m not an accident, not a mistake, not an unwanted problem, and nobody’s reject. I am your cherished child, for whom you willingly sacrificed your most precious Treasure – your only Son, so that I may go and spend eternity with you.
Question: 
Why are we, who know this Father, not shouting this from the housetops? Why do we withhold this most astounding news from others, from those who desperately need a love like this? What is wrong with us?
I think the problem is that we have intellectualised salvation. We have brought it down to 4 Steps, or 10 Points or 5 Scriptures, or whatever other dry, unemotional, dispassionate formula we use. We have lost the joy, the excitement, the wonder of the incredibly GOOD news. We don’t share with others the amazing difference knowing his love has made in our lives, and that his love can do the same for them, if they’re willing. Instead, we give people a list of dos–and-don’ts and talk religion to them. Who needs that?
PRAYER # 2
Father, knowing your tender, yet passionate love for me, gives me the desire to share that love with tired, hurting people.
Set me on fire with your love, that I may give that love to the ones who need love so desperately.
AMEN
Here is the foundation of all we have said: Psalm 147:4; Matt. 10:30; Psa. 139:4; Matt. 6:32; 1 Pet. 5:7; Isaiah 43:1 (spoken to Israel, but he is the same toward all his children); Psa. 139:15; Jerem. 1:5a (spoken to the prophet but true of us all.)
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