One day while shopping in a store, I was impressed by a large photograph album I saw there. I mean, it was really large! Four or five inches thick! I couldn't help thinking of the number of pictures it could hold, and the joy and pleasure someone could have with its treasured photos of family, friends, a vacation trip.
Then it occurred to me that no photo album, no matter how large or thick, could encase all the beautiful spiritual pictures of man to be derived from pondering the vital message of Jesus' prayer that is generally known as the Lord's Prayer, a prayer of incomparable spirituality. And what spiritual inspiration can be enjoyed from pondering these pictures, pictures that constitute, in a prayer, a veritable portrait of you and me and all.
Prayer is much more than just words or thoughts. Paul exhorted to unceasing prayer. See I Thess. 5:17 This sort of constant prayer demands consistency in living the very highest aspirations our words or thoughts would express. It actually calls for our practicing what we profess of the divine reality we would like to experience.
