I went to a great prayer meeting this morning at our church. We have a wonderful group of people who commit themselves to pray for the church and the pastors and today we met to talk and pray. This past week I’ve been thinking about what prayer means to me and how it affects me. One particular image has been with me all week, a postal scale.
If you’ve ever sent mail using a postal scale, you understand what I’m saying. If you want to mail an item, or several items together, you have to know how much it weighs before you know how much postage to put on it. In order to weigh multiple items you have to put them in a container and zero out the scale with the empty container on it so that you know exactly how much the contents weigh. Then any time you change the container, or don’t use a container, you have to zero the scale again. Otherwise you would underestimate or overestimate the weight of the item being measured.
