kingtycoon | "Always Pray & Never Give Up"

From today's devotional: "Are you going through one of those times when it seems every attempt to resolve a problem is met with a new difficulty? You thank the Lord at night that it's taken care of but awake to find that something else has gone wrong and the problem remains."
The bible verse that is presented as a salve to this situation is Luke 18 - which I wasn't really conversant with. Luckily it's printed right here in contemporary english. The story is a parable - kinda - and it's basically the story of the person who bothers customer service forever so that they finally address your problems. The old lady bothers the unjust magistrate every day until he finally attends to her problem. I mean - yes. Persistence is the way to get acquiescence. Along with this though - the lady is constantly praying - and the message here is that prayer changes everything - it's even left asa bolded single line at the bottom of the page - in case you were missing the intention here.

Now. Practically - bugging an authority every day to make them finally comply with your (just) wishes - well that's effective. Maybe praying, as a part of making a nuisance of yourself to the unwilling shirker is a useful way to queue your resolve? It's maybe a technique for initiating your persistence. Set induction & so forth.

Sometimes I think about prayer as it tends to refer to liminal states and autohypnosis.

Now - I'm not religious at all and am super dubious about the existence of a benevolent deity. This devotional guide though - it is provided to people with the assumption that JHVH is a good guy pal and on your side. So the implication is that JHVH doesn't listen or try to care so you have to pray every day no matter what and accept that JHVH is probably not going to help you until you plead your case daily. So it's a troubling message for the true believer which is probably why it never came up in church or sunday school.

Anyhow - I'm awful shitty at consistency. I often wish that I could be like, samey - you know - wake up at the same time every day - go to bed at the same time - eat at the same times, do the same stuff - I haven't got one real-true daily ritual that puts me into the proper mindset for a proper activity. It's a real, real shame - but what can I do? I mean, besides repair that situation.