Stupid Christian Tricks: Prayer On the Bottom

There are two things that leave me feeling refreshed like nothing else.

First, there's prayer. When I've had a good time of prayer I leave re-invigorated, peaceful, and with direction for the day.

Second is exercise, when I've had a good workout, I'm charged up, my muscles have worked, I can think clearer.

It'd seem a no-brainer that prayer would be at the Center of Life and that I would exercise regularly and right away.

Reality though?

Reality is that prayer is hard to do and that it's easy to put it off.

And as for workout? I not only workout in the Evening, I end up pushing it back to 9 or 10 o'clock usually. As if my mind is trying to talk me out of it. It usually loses.

But on prayer, I get so distracted. This morning is a good example, I realized I needed to find my keys. I spent a good half hour ravaging the house for them. I figure I would pray after that and maybe then get to the writing. I didn't get any writing done this morning and instead dashed off a hurried prayer time of 45 seconds. Got to work and was stressed out before my first break over something not even worth getting upset about.

What astonishes me is that I know it'll be good for me and draw me close to God but somehow I find myself always pushing it back behind something else.

"For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?"-Romans 7:22-24