From my journal: In our World Relief prayer guide, I have come across this comment from Louis Berkhof: "God does not want us as objects but as covenant partners, partners who can converse. He desires our conversation input, our spontaneous gratitude, our free concurrence, but also our patient or impatient questions (rather than) our silent, unconvinced acquiescence" (Italics mine, as they say).

Berkhof's insight affects my approach to personal worship this morning because I see a new perspective on prayer. Does God want conversation? Does God really desire my patient or impatient questionings?" I've got a lot of the latter if He's really interested. Is he?

The idea has caused me to reflect on those occasions when Moses kind of got ticked off at God, dared to instruct him (so it seems).

Moses the confronter: "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here." Moses the complainer: "Why have you brought this trouble upon your servant? ...