KEYS

10/17/10 Key---the word can be the part of speech of choice and has many definitions along with a host of adages & proverbs concerning the aforementioned word.
Personally, keys are the “implements” I misplace quite often. In literature, the “key” to a good mystery is plausible red herrings. The key to meaningful conversation is being a good listener. In relationships, a good friend is a key to sanity in an insane world. In a marriage, women are taught that the “key” to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Shoppers like to key in on a good bargain. Okay, enough of keying in all these inane ideas.
Yesterday’s My Utmost for His Highest entry, “The Key to the Masters Orders,” gave key insights to the spiritual aspects of life. The key (noun) to all of life is in the hand of God. It’s not the work of man. It’s not the key of common sense, nor the medical key, nor the education key. The key is prayer.* As Oswald Chambers states, “prayer is not practical, prayer is absurd.” Prayer from the ordinary, common-sense view seems ridiculous…..but prayer is the key to the spiritual realm.
Did you kneel in prayer today? If you did, did you pray for others in the world?

1Thessalonians 5:17 …pray continually (NIV)
1Thessalonians 5:25 Brothers pray for us. (NIV

*After I had written this blog, I went 2 miles down a curvy mountain road to attend the small Joplin United Methodist Church. The pastor, who is the oldest recipient of a double lung transplant, gave testimony to the importance of prayer. From Luke 18: 1-9, he taught that persistence is one of the key (adjective) aspects of one’s prayer life.

All believers need to key in (verb) on this fact.