I have been working on fostering a deeper and more genuine relationship with Jesus, trying to cut through the pretense and hypocrisy that comes so easy to me. Recently I came across this helpful prayer:
“O living Christ, make this a living word to me. Thy word is life, but not without the Holy Spirit. I may know this book of thine from beginning to end, and repeat it all from Genesis to Revelation, and yet it may be a dead book, and I may be a dead soul. But, Lord, be present here; then will I look up from the book to the Lord; from the precept to him who fulfilled it; from the law to him who honoured it; from the threatening to him who has borne it for me, and from the promise to him in whom it is. Yea and amen.”
Charles Spurgeon