Did you hear that?

Do you ever listen to the rhetoric in prayers? We say some silly things sometimes. One thing that gets me everytime is when we pull out the King James talk. You can take the most laid-back, regular ole' southern guy who speaks with a drawl and probably couldn't tell you what the Elizabethan period is, and then stick him in front of a microphone and he starts sounding like Hamlet. Why?! What is the point?

One more and I'll stop complaining. By the way, I do have a point, I think. What's the point of praying to God that "everything we do will be done in spirit and truth"? First of all, we have taken that one statement from Jesus out of content and absolutely beaten it to death. Here's the other thing, why do we say that to God? What control does He have over the decisions we make in our worship? Either we worship scripturally or we don't. Are we asking God to accept our worship, regardless? I doubt it. Is it that we're asking that He step in and zap us if we're about to do something wrong so that we don't do it? I hope not. If you really think about it for a moment, it's easy to realize how silly that statement is.

Okay, if you're still reading, thank you. Here's my point. Let's start being more thoughtful about our prayers and less robotic. Let's focus more on talking to our creator, our sustainer and our best friend; and worry less about sounding religious or saying the right thing. Let's stop trying to be religious (or show how religious we are) and just start talking to God like He's the most important being in our life.