The Most Important Thing

[Reposted from my site.]

Author’s note: Having written independently of knowing what the summer X-Roads theme is, I am delighted that they have matched up nearly perfectly. I hope, then, that this is a blessing to all of you, and I hope to see those of you who have not yet graduated in the fall — my best again to those who have.

For those of you who have little time, the essence of the post is this:

As long as we view prayer simply as the means to maintaining our own Christian lives, we will not fully understand what it is really supposed to be. But when we learn to regard it as the highest part of the work entrusted to us — the root and strength of all other work — we will see that there is nothing we need to study and practice more than the art of praying.

—Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer

Read from the beginning…