God is holy and powerful that we dare not speak to him
unless he initiates the conversation. In
fact it is a communication that should never have been attempted had man taken
into account the unapproachable glory of the Creator.
But by God’s mercy, our position was changed to that of sons
through the gospel of the Lord Jesus, the Christ, when we repented of our sins
and trusted in Jesus for our salvation, and with this standing came the
privilege of pouring out our hearts to him, and the right to call God “Abba,”
which corresponds to our “Papa.”
Neglect of prayer, for a Christian, is spiritual suicide and
a demonstration of contempt for the life, death, and resurrection of the Lord
Jesus which made it a possibility.
