Day 4: My Motive for Prayer

1-3:3

In this reading, Mary Baker Eddy asks what the reader’s motive is for prayer. She gives four options:

• make ourselves better
• benefit those listening
• enlighten infinite mind
• heard of men

The way she phrases this, all four options are incorrect motives for prayer. However, the first one, to make ourselves better, is exactly what I’m aiming for -- to be more spiritual by understanding God.

At the beginning of the chapter, she lays out an interesting equation (or at least that’s the way I thought of it):

absolute faith = spiritual understanding = unselfed love

My desire for personal spiritual progress is currently taking front seat to unselfed love. Probably need to correct that.

2010