6.1 This is not about secrecy, but about whose reward we seek.
6.4 We keep our shameful actions secret, but God sees all; what if it were our good actions we kept secret?
6.6 As with giving, so with prayer. Do we not all long for secret powers?
6.14 Couldn’t be plainer! Whom do I need to forgive?
6.21 Jesus’ real target is not your treasure but your heart.
6.22 So, what am I looking at with my eyes?
Tom Wright is helpful here: showing how personal prayer (our relationship with the Father) is at the heart of the Kingdom of heaven arriving on earth – hence the opening lines of the Lord’s Prayer.
I love the paragraph on page 18 which starts:
ReplyDelete"If prayer is about heaven and earth overlapping in time and space..." Something really 'meaty' to think about and put into practise.
Oooh yes: I see what you mean!
ReplyDeleteAlso the following para, 'it's going to make me a forgiver.' Thought-provoking stuff, innit?
Mind-blowing stuff:
ReplyDeleteSome sneer that prayers don't go beyond the ceiling. Jesus agrees! They don't have to - God is right there with us in the room, or wherever we pray.