Push The Prayer Button
Help through the power of prayer
Articles within this series
- Overview
- The Priorities of Prayer
- Push The Prayer Button
- Next Steps / Related Information
My life will be so much easier, or so they say, with each new office machine, each new computer upgrade, each new high-tech gadget. Yet I still come kicking and screaming into the present. Only under pressure do I attempt to use the next technological marvel that's sure to increase my efficiency and set me free from the tedium of desk work. But while I finally am able to cope with the gadgets of 20th Century, albeit a little late, I'm still rather fond of the manual Royal typewriter I bought from my high school when they were throwing the relics out!
Thankfully, I'm not the only one lagging behind. Not long ago, I walked by my office's new fax machine.
A bewildered co-worker stared blankly at the sleek, sophisticated piece of technology, which was silent-no beeps, buzzes, rings or whirs. It had not responded to his commands to transmit a message. In frustration he muttered, "Doesn't this thing have a button I can push to start over?"
"I ask that question about my life sometimes," I laughed. The words were hardly out of my mouth before I realized the truth they revealed.
And almost as quickly, I knew the answer: Yes.
Maybe not for the fax machine, but for life, there is indeed a "clear" button we can push to begin again. It's called prayer. When everything else goes wrong-we burn the casserole, the picnic gets rained out, we break our bifocals, we're late for work again-we can push the button of prayer and know He hears us and will give us a fresh start. Better still, it allows God to speak to our hearts, and it reminds us He is in control-even of new technology.