“True prayer is always humble. By definition. True prayer means recognizing that God is God and we…aren’t…So learning to pray means learning to abandon pride…and…to recognize, both in how we pray and what we pray, that everything we have, everything we are, is a gift from God, and that neither we nor anybody else deserve it. Prayer like that will be humble. It will also be a sigh of relief. We don’t have anything to prove, anything to earn. Thank you, Father, for your generous love. Help me, today and every day, to trust in you and not myself.”
N.T. Wright in Lent for Everyone: Luke, Year C – Daily Devotional (London: SPCK, 2009) 62-63.
Wright takes readers on a spiritual journey through Luke in this Lent devotional. I was moved by this reading on the topic of learning to pray. This season, as we focus on prayer, may each of us see ourselves for who we really are and may we also see God for who He is. In turn, may we exhibit humility and generosity, because we have come to realize all the gifts He has richly lavished upon us.