Day 42

Dec 12: Numbers 19-24
One thing that I think we should always be working on is our prayer life. It's probably safe to say that we could judge our own spiritual maturity based on what we pray about. If we're always praying for selfish things, like more money, a better job, a nicer house, it can show that our prayers could be more for us than for the glory of God.
I've been talking about how immature the Israelites seem in some of my past posts and it continues on here. I've seen a common theme from their prayers and that theme is that they are always wishing for selfish things. They complain and pray for better food, they complain for water in the desert, and in these chapters when God gets upset about them complaining about having miserable food in the desert, God sends venomous snakes that live among them. These snakes end up biting and killing a lot of them and their prayer again is for the Lord to take the snakes away from them, instead of asking for forgiveness to God for having a lack of trust in him once again.
It's easy for us to read this and analyze it and see how many times they've been stupid and unfaithful to God but we are the same way, just in different aspects. I need to pray more to God asking for more maturity in my prayers. To seek out the things that God wants me to pray about, to give me a heart that agonizes like his, to pray more about what God wants in my life rather than what I want. I think a lot of it just comes from pride. Just like John the baptist said, He must increase and we must decrease. As hard as that could be, I know if we consistenly pray for things and we persevere instead of just praying about it once or twice, God will bring about transformation in our lives and our prayers.