Sunday, October 9, 2011

Watch As Well As Pray

Which deserves the most attention, watching or praying? Which stands tallest in your life? In the last 10 years or so people have given the most attention to the subject of prayer, when to pray how to pray, why to pray. What we have learned is that there are many opinions on the subject of prayer. To me what counts most is that we make it a lifestyle. A consistent prayer life keeps us grounded. We are told in scripture to watch as well as pray.

Watching on the other hand is a subject to which I, in this venue will deal very lightly. I loved the story of Gideon when growing up as a child. One of the things Gideon watched for while selecting a small yet courageous army for the Lord, he watched the men while drinking. The select group drink-ed from the water source and watched everything that moved around them, much like dogs do when they drink. The significance was most people when enjoying some type of activity will relax and not watch the things around them. The example is a picture of those who are alert even when it is a time to relax. We as people will only watch when we are told that it is time to be attentive.
As you know the blogs in this series of blogs are about relationships as I think in my inner being.
There is no time to relax in relationships. There is always something going going on in the mind of the other person. Many marriages and relationships fail when one of the individuals stop watching. They say that, "I didn't see it coming". Watching deserves the same amount of attention as praying.