Why don’t we pray? – Part 6

This Sunday I will be continuing to look at reasons why we don’t pray.  Generally, Christians know the value of prayer, but mostly we still struggle to pray.

It has often been thus.  Even in the days of Israel, keeping God at arms length served their purposes.  Isaiah parodied their response:

Give us no more visions of what is right!
       Tell us pleasant things,
       prophesy illusions.

Leave this way,
       get off this path,
       and stop confronting us
       with the Holy One of Israel!

(Isa 30:10-11)

This almost seems an unbelievable response.  How can it be possible for God’s people to prefer to keep God away?  Is it possible that we, too, don’t want God to come too close?  Could a lack of prayer highlight a far deeper problem about our trust in God?