Ephesians 3

“Because of Christ and our faith in him,^[d] we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence.” v. 12 (NLT)

I have to be honest, this is one of those verses that I have read but skipped over many times because the last part of this chapter is so powerful.  However, today when I read, this verse jumped out at me and convicted me of how I treat prayer.  Prayer is my direct access to God and to think that I am entering into the presence of God and sharing words with Him and He is listening to me is so huge.  Sadly, many times we, I, will pray without thinking about what is taking place.  I am thankful that I can come to God anytime and anywhere, and He hears me.  But my attitude and gratitude sometimes isn’t in awe of what is actually taking place.  Sometimes I am so casual in approaching God, that I lessen all that Christ did on the Cross which made the way for me to have direct access to God.  Maybe this doesn’t make sense.

Today, I want to remember each time I pray that I am entering into the presence of the most Holy God.  I so desperately want to be changed from the inside out to be more like Him and less like me and I want to talk to Him as I would a friend.  What an awesome privilege we have through Christ to have direct access to God, let us never forget that!