Why don't we pray?

Things happen quick, life throws unexpected curve balls at us, and it seems we're just supposed to take it with stride and move on. It seems so easy for us to tell other people to just move on, or that it's "just life." So easy...until it hits US.
Life isn't easy. It's as simple as that. God didn't ever tell us it would be easy, go read anywhere in the bible when Jesus is talking about a life living for Him.

What usually makes these difficult times harder, though, is when we don't take them to God. These problems seem to get thrown on us, and in the commotion and surprise, we simply freak out...forgetting that the One who made us, the Creator of the entire earth is ready to listen to everything we have to say. Every need He meets. It may not be the way we had hoped, it may be in an entirely different way than we would even imagine...but He answers every prayer. For a child praying to their Father for guidance and help, it's a sweet thing indeed.

Think of the love your earthly father has for you...he isn't perfect, but any good father will love and try to protect his child with all that he can. Think then, of the love our HEAVENLY Father has for us...He made each of us, gave us life, yet we are afraid to ask Him when we need help? Isn't that just selfish.

Do we think we have the ability to solve every problem that comes our way? Do we feel God couldn't care enough about us to help in our times of need? If so, then we are forgetting that He CARED enough to give His son, His ONLY Son, to die for you and I. For the ones who nailed Him to the cross. The ones who mocked Him, who beat Him...

He didn't die to just let us live a life without Him. He wanted a relationship with us, to die meant we could have that relationship. That, through Him, we can now go straight to the Father whenever we need help. Isn't that something to be incredibly thankful for? People search their entire lives for a gift such as this. Someone to talk to that can comfort them, and we just take it for granted.

Start now. Start here. Don't let more days slip away with worries and problems. Take them to Christ. The bible tells us He even knows when a sparrow falls...He DOES care for you, so very, very much. If only we'd go to Him, we wouldn't have to face life alone.