I read somewhere that all of the apostles would've started out life in synagogue school before leaving at some point to pursue other vocations. They're steeped in religious life... and yet they ask Jesus to teach them how to pray.
They knew how to pray.
But they watched Jesus pray, and they clearly saw something lacking in their own lives. They wanted to pray like Jesus did, in a way that was a two-way conversation, conveying intimacy and enriching their lives with spiritual depth. They wanted more than what they'd had before Jesus.
Do you long for Jesus to teach you to pray? Maybe this is something important for the church in the 21st century. That we not simply look for the words, but we ask Jesus to teach us how to pray, how to pursue God, how to develop breadth and depth in our spiritual lives that prayer might be life-giving and nourishing, a drink from the living waters that quenches our spiritual thirst.
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