In one sense your prayer life is disgustingly revealing: it does reveal who you really are. For all your talk and theory of faith – you can affirm the truth of prayer and know that God is good – your prayer life reveals how much you really want communion with God and how much you really depend on him. I stress it absolutely does not tell you about your security as an unrejectable child of God, but it does tell you, very accurately, how much of a baby you are spiritually, how much of a hypocrite you are, and how much you actually love
