Not so many of us possess creative potential. Few of us are blessed with towering personalities, shining gifts, brilliant intellects or golden talents. Because many of us are only ordinary, average, unspectacular persons, we feel that we have been cheated in life. We believe that we are deprived persons of little or no significance.
But the least gifted person who is born again has access to the most creative resource in the entire universe, the resource of prayer. We humans place great stress on the importance of human endowments, including talent, magnetic personality, technique, intellect, cleverness and skill as the principal factors in shaping human events. But God knows that prayer is where the action is.
Prayer is the greatest activity anyone can do for God or man. And the least-gifted, the least-endowed, the least-known person in the world, by making prayer the main business of his life, may become greater in God's book than the most highly endowed, the most brilliant and the most famous person in the world who fails to pray.
A brilliant, disciplined mind honed to a razor's edge, a mind impregnated and permeated with all that we associate with the ultimate in intellect, culture, and scholarship, is the be greatly admired and cultivated. We spend years of study, labor, and toil to acquire these disciplines. But there is something more supremely important and fundamental.
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Recently, a friend passed on to me this reading from Destined to Overcome: The Technique of Spiritual Warfare by Paul E. Billheimer. On tomorrow's blog, I will continue with selections from Billheimer's book.
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