Prayer, It’s Important
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As a mom, I tend to want to fix things for my kids. Boo-boos need bandaides, colds and flu need chicken soup, a headache needs tylenol…right?
I am learning though, that seeing the immediate need for action in the natural things I can do, should be second to the action of spiritual things I can do.
A few weeks ago my four year old son was crying. He said “I have a boo-boo!”.
Of course I immediately picked him up and kissed the boo-boo. He kept on crying.
I said “Honey, mommy kissed it, doesn’t it feel better?”
He looked at me and said, “Don’t kiss it! Pray for it!”.
Wow!
I was excited that he would ask for prayer, but I also felt bad that prayer wasn’t my first response.
I know as a Christian that prayer should ALWAYS be my first response, but my natural need to do natural things seems to take over
My husband, on the other hand, almost always thinks to pray right away. Not only does he think to pray right away, he doesn’t even always say “Let’s pray” before he starts. He just starts praying, and assumes everyone present is praying with him.
That is how I want to be. First things first. The important before the urgent.
I guess we were told to pray unceasingly, and maybe that is why- so it would be our first response, our first action.
After all, prayer gets better results than a kissed boo-boo.
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