Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. Ps116.2 NKJV
We are told to ask for bread and to ask for it daily. Just as a child is encouraged to say thank you every time they receive something, we are encouraged to ask and express gratitude to God as long as we live. No one says to another, I want to tell you this once, thanks for all you do for me, and let this one time cover all the others. Gratitude itself is a need expressed over and over again. Expressing thanks expresses the proper relationship between giver and receiver.
The psalmist expresses gratitude to God for answered prayer and then affirms that he will call upon Him as long as he lives. Such actions describe the only life available to us. Jesus explained that there is no life apart from the Creator, just as a branch has no life apart from the vine. When it comes to prayer the magic is in the asking itself. The reason we keep asking, keep calling, keep believing, is that continually doing these things expresses that one true relationship of vine to branch. As a branch sucks sap from the life of the vine, so we must always, everyday and as long as we live keep drawing life and energy from God. Most would find it humbling to be considered a sap sucker. Yet humility is that one true attitude properly expressed every time we call on the Lord. Every single thing we offer to God, we must first take from Him. Even when we say thanks we must first borrow a breath. Life is truthfully nothing more, nothing less than calling on the Lord. Let us then find our glory in being a sap sucker. 8/24/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
