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And it happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.”
Luke 11:1, LSB
Prayer is a central aspect of the “God spot” in our hearts. Our hearts are programmed with a desire to pray. It is not just a Christian thing nor is it just Jewish or Muslim. All religions have prayers that they pray. I would even posit that some who hold to no faith or claim to be atheists have forms of prayer, though they would not call it such. We can even see it in our world in unwitting ways when we say, “Good luck!” or “Cross your fingers!” God has placed in us a desire to seek out external hope. The disciples would have known some prayers but wanted to know how to pray differently to show the faith being born. Our prayers shape us and our thinking. The prayer taught by our Lord is born out of God’s desire for us to see Him not as distant, but close. To pray to God as Father shows intimacy but also a respect that God desired since the beginning. An intimacy that was shown in the Garden as He walked with Adam and Eve, with Abraham as He spoke regularly, in the Exodus as He was close to Moses and the pillar of cloud and fire ever before His chosen, and we can find more and more of this throughout the Old Testament. Our God has never been a far-off God seeking appeasement, but He always desired holiness from His chosen. In the words of the Lord’s Prayer, we find these words meant to draw us closer, and in these words we are meant to find peace.
Let us pray. I thank you, my heavenly Father, through Jesus Christ, your dear Son, that you have kept me this night from all harm and danger, and I ask you to protect me this day also from sin and every evil, that in all I do today, I may please you. For into your hands, I commend myself, my body and soul, and all that is mine. Let your holy angel watch over me, that the wicked foe have no power over me. Amen.
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