Please don't take this as an hyper critical observation, but as black men we all really need to step up in our spiritual life. Now I understand, "The Lord's Prayer" is the model for prayer, and its a prayer shared in most athletic locker rooms across the counrty professional or otherwise, however, it is the same prayer most of us have been saying since we were beginning elementary school and playing little league football.
Before each game where I play once a week in a church league, there is a prayer before each game. Usually, someone is asked to volunteer to pray and then there is that awkward moment of silence before anyone steps up to pray. Then it hit me today, as black men including myself, we seem to get excited and volunteer for things that are not relevant to the growth of our walk with Christ. I was actually ashamed of myself that I didn't stop us from continuing in our monotone repetitious chant of The Lord's Prayer.
Why? Well...think about it for a moment. As kids we played sports, we were ok, but as time went on and our bodies matured our knowledge grew, we followed the basics but we got better at the sports we played. Right? When we started liking girls, we wrote letters that said "Do you like me? Circle yes or no." And as time went on, we got smarter (some of us), we matured, and our game got better talking to women. So why are we still talking to God like we are little kids. It makes me wonder, how many of us leave our jobs or the gym, go home and have dinner and say...
"God is great. God is good. Let us thank him for our food."
We're not kids anymore. Everyone is not going to talk to good with the same level of confidence, but its time for us to stop acting and praying like children. We step our game up for everything else, lets step it up for God is '07. I'm done praying like a child, alone or in a group. I'm hungry for more out of life.
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