Do you desire that your prayer pass through the roof and arrive in the heaven? (30/01)

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Do you desire that your prayer pass through the roof and arrive in the heaven?

  • “You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.” (Lamentations 3.44).

I don’t. I own up that I don’t understand why Jeremiah said that the Israel’s prayers didn’t pass through the cloud that the Creator used to cover Himself. Nevertheless, what makes me more baffled is that, nowadays, the Church keeps on believing that something can debar our prayers of arriving to the Creator.

Who is this God in whom you have been believing? The true God is omniscient, He know everything that we plan on saying, even before there is a word in our tongue (Psalms 139.4). Regrettably, we perpetuate the same mistake of Adam: blame the Creator for the crimes we perpetrate (Genesis 3.12). See, for instance, this excerpt of the Holy Scripture:

  • “Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened so that it cannot save, nor is His ear heavy so that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.” (Isaiah 59.1,2).

We are who eschew from the Creator. Recall that the Creator went toward Adam; it was him who hid from the Creator (Genesis 3.8,9). It is us who hid our faces from hearing Him (Jeremiah 2.27; 7.26; 32.33; Ezekiel 23.35) and His word (see Proverbs 28.9). In other words, it is the sin that hid the face of the Creator and preclude us from hear His voice.

Although the Creator speaks with us, we try to bring Him around to what fits in with our plans. The Creator show us the back, and not the face (Jeremiah 18.17) because we don’t prepare our heart to be faithful in all His house and to be able to see His likeness (see Numbers 12.7,8).

So, open and purify your heart and mind, and you will see Jesus close to you (Matthew 28.20; Acts 17.25-28; Revelation 3.18), ready to hear your voice (1Peter 3.10-12). Have a good day resting in His presence (Psalms 37.7).