The Better Part A Christcentered Resource For Personal Prayer John Bartunek by John Bartunek 9780991603862, 0991603869 instant download after payment.

Conscientious Christians pray. Their typical days, weeks, months, and years are seasoned with prayer – traditional prayers, liturgical prayers, spontaneous prayers. They make prayer commitments, giving structure and consistency to their faith journey. Prayer keeps Christians united to the Vine, so their lives can bear the fruit both they and Christ long for.1

Among the most basic prayer commitments is one that can have more bearing on your life than any other, because it is more personalized: the daily meditation. Certainly you can’t mature as a Christian without the sacramental life, just as crops can’t mature without sunlight and soil. And the various devotional and vocal prayers that punctuate your day keep you strong and focused amid the unrelenting blows of the unchristian culture all around you. But, as generations of saints and sinners have found out, that is not enough.

Without the daily renewal and deepening of your personal relationship with Jesus Christ that happens especially through meditation, sooner or later routine sets in. You get into a rut. Your prayers get mechanical, your sacramental life slides into hollow ritualism, and before you know it, your faith gets sidelined and you get dragged back into the rat race in some form or other. The daily meditation keeps your faith, that pearl of great price,2 lively, supple, and relevant. It irrigates the soil of your soul, making your sacramental life more fruitful, keeping your other prayer commitments meaningful, and continually opening up new vistas along the path to spiritual maturity.