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My first pastorate was a rural community in Virginia. When I arrived there in 1954, I learned that the area had actually only had electricity for six years. Because I was a city boy, it seemed incredible that they had only enjoyed this modern convenience since 1948.
However, I was told a story that seemed even more incredible, but the teller of the story assured me it was true.
A
woman had had electricity installed in her house at great expense but
the power company noticed that her meter showed she was using almost no
electricity at all. Fearing that there was a problem she had not reported, they sent a meter reader to check on the matter.
He saw that the power was indeed working properly and so asked the woman, “Do you use the electricity?”
She replied, “Of course we do. We turn it on every night so we can more easily see to light our gas lights and then we turn it off.”
Ridiculous? Yes. Having all that power and not using it.
But some do that with God, don’t they? Saving real prayer power for only really big problems. Someone is sick and dying, a major decision needs to be made and prayer time is then ratcheted up to full force.
Understandable? Unfortunately, yes.
But why not place this confidence in God for minor moments and decisions, as well? For there is a real danger here, this lack of confidence in and prayer toward the living God. If
one is not careful, one day those ever-so-occasional prayers will
become so seldom a truck could be driven through the space left since
last a real deep confidence-in-God prayer was lifted up.
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