"At Home"

You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. Psalm 32:7

I think distractions in prayer are often because we have let ourselves wander too far from the things that matter most. And so we slip into an easily interrupted, easily distracted frame of mind.

We need to live more at home.
"In him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28). This means, simply, God is our home.

Home of my heart, lest I forget

My redemption's cost to Thee,

Let my earliest thought be set

Upon Thy Calvary.

Do you see what I mean? These words, which center my attention on what matters most, speak of something that I cannot drop out of my day without great loss to me.

I know without question that an earnest "look" at Calvary does more to help our life of prayer than we imagine:

So shall the sayings of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be pleasing continually before Thee, O Lord my helper and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14, Septuagint)

Edges of His Ways; by Amy Carmichael