I have a nice small notepad filled with passwords to a multitude of websites. We have been counseled not to use the same password for all places because if someone discovers it, then they have access to everything. The problem here is old age. If I do not open a site for six months or more I don’t have a clue which password will work. So I have a notepad. Now if someone gets the notepad then they have access to everything. This is crazy. We live in an encoded world. I even have a security device that every sixty seconds changes the password for one particular site.
I am so grateful I don’t need an ever-changing password to have access to God. However, I do know there are people out there who want us to believe there is one and only password nd they have it. If we will join their club or group they will share it with us. God only hears their prayers and the rest of us are praying in vain. Two of them knocked on my door and I invited them in. When I offered to pray with them they literally fled the room. They could not pray with such a sinner as me. Wow.
I have always loved Samuel Coleridge’s line, “”He prayeth best who loveth best all things both great and small; for the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” He hears the faintest prayer of the weakest soul. He longs to hear from us and how grand–there is no secret code. There is no password. Just call out. He’s listening.
Written by Roger Bothwell on January 30, 2009
Spring of Life Ministry, PO Box 124, St. Helena, CA 94574
rogerbothwell.org