Work? Praying takes work?

So prayer takes work, eh? Hmmm.

What’s there about it that makes it be work?

“Epaphras . . . always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God” (Colossians 4:12).

For this man, prayer was an ongoing, intense experience. Work, in other words.

I know how difficult it is to pray persistently and intensely and desperately for others.

That’s why I do it so infrequently.

Maybe that’s why some have fallen instead of standing perfect and complete.

So what will I do about it besides writing this little piece?

Sometimes when I give someone a “To Do” list, I have in mind that one thing be done for sure. “If you don’t get anything else done, be sure you do this.”

Once in a while, we read something like that in the Bible. Like this:

“And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness” (Colossians 3:14).

What else is in that particular “To Do” list?

• Mercy
• Kindness
• Humility
• Meekness
• Longsuffering
• Forbearance
• Forgiveness

Charity is to drive my doing of all those things.