Prayer and Faith

Shalom Aleichem!

Between January 2021 and April 2021, I personally know of 9 people who died due to covid. It was an extraordinary time when each time the phone rang at night or a WhatsApp message was received, I trembled, wondering whether it is a message of someone's death.

I have been left wondering how we take life for granted. We leave homes casually and expect to come back later in the day. That walk out of the door may be the last one. I remember of a dear one who reportedly left home to go and do a covid test. It was positive and he was immediately put in an isolation ward. That morning when he left home, that was the last time he actually had any physical conversation with the family. He never returned home. This life we have is indeed on rental. The Lord will require of it some day, any day, even today. Scary thought when I look at the fact that I have mentally diarised what I have to do today -  including picking my children and dropping them home after school. Prayer is not on my cards...until meal time.

Often we Christians are not as fanatical about prayer other than when we are having a meal or going to sleep. Our faith cannot be standalone from prayer. Prayer is an act of faith itself. Let us embrace the habit of creating a time, even twice a day, where we pray not necessarily because we are before a meal or we are about to sleep.

I am praying for my faith not to wane and that I be not discouraged in any way from continually seeking the throne of God with praise, worship and thanksgivng.  Lord, give me a faithful prayer life all day! Let it be so for all those reading this.

Shalom