For What it’s Worth…

Calvin’s fourth rule on prayer – “We pray in confident hope”. Calvin rightly comments,
“Cast down and overcome by true humility, we should be nonetheless encouraged to pray by a sure hope that our prayer will answered”
Prayer is essentially linked to faith, and true faith is founded on the sure character of the one in whom we have that faith, and not some abstract quantity or quality of ours. As we come to God in prayer, it is helpful to recall the cross of His Son. We know we come as sinners, but as forgiven sinners – sinners who are now children. Meditate on Paul’s encouragement in Romans 8.32 – “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” Let us pray!