“Devote yourselves to
prayer, being watchful and thankful.”
Colossians 4:2
What does it mean to be
devoted to prayer?
Paul gives us a clue by
clarifying the command: “being watchful and thankful.” Be watchful of what the Lord is doing in
every circumstance and eager to thank Him for what you find, no matter if it is
to your immediate advantage or not.
When I think of people
devoting themselves to something, my mind goes to a woman devoting her life to
be a nun. There’s nothing passive about
that decision. She decides to leave the
family she already has and any hopes for a future family to live apart in a vow
of poverty, worship and serving the poor.
There’s no way that she’d ever drift into being a nun on her own. Maybe it’s the same with devoting ourselves to
prayer. We have to map out a game plan
and then decide to move forward.
On game days, each baseball
player at my school had to carry around a ball all day during classes to help
them mentally prepare. That helped to
devote their minds to the game that day.
I’d like to do the same with my mind. For the next 24 hours, I’d like to carry
around a wood carved cross with me to keep my ever-straying mind devoted to
seeking out what God is doing in each moment, and then thanking Him for it.
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