Approach Him With Confidence
“One day the disciples said to Jesus Christ: ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ It was the Holy Spirit who inspired them to make this request. The Holy Spirit convinced them of their inability to pray in their own strength, and He moved their hearts to draw near to Jesus Christ as the only Master who could teach them how they ought to pray. It was then that Jesus taught them the Lord’s Prayer.
There is no Christian who is not in the same case as the disciples. Every Christian ought to say to the Savior as humbly as they: ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ Ah! if we were only convinced of our ignorance and of our need of a Teacher like Jesus Christ! If we would only approach Him with confidence, asking Him to teach us Himself and desiring to be taught by His grace how to converse with God! How soon we should be skilled in it and how many of its secrets we should discover! Do not let us say that we know how to pray the prayer they learned from Him. We may know the words, but without grace we cannot understand the meaning and we cannot ask or receive what it expresses.”
~Jean-Nicholas Grou
There is no Christian who is not in the same case as the disciples. Every Christian ought to say to the Savior as humbly as they: ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’ Ah! if we were only convinced of our ignorance and of our need of a Teacher like Jesus Christ! If we would only approach Him with confidence, asking Him to teach us Himself and desiring to be taught by His grace how to converse with God! How soon we should be skilled in it and how many of its secrets we should discover! Do not let us say that we know how to pray the prayer they learned from Him. We may know the words, but without grace we cannot understand the meaning and we cannot ask or receive what it expresses.”
~Jean-Nicholas Grou
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