Our Father God is quick to forget our sins when we repent. As Corrie Ten Boom once wrote, “He buries our sins in the deepest part of the ocean; and then posts a sign that reads “No Fishing!” He forgets our sins many times in our lifetimes; but there are other things that God never forgets.

Sometimes it is hard to feel in touch with Gd, and our prayers seem like sawdust. Those times can drag on longer and longer unless we remember that every believing prayer is bound in God’s “Bundle of Life” (1Samuel 25:29). The very prayer that was prayed for each of us at our baptism remains in God’s bundle throughout our lives. The prayers of our grandmothers are still in God’s bundle when our own lips are silent, and we can’t discern God’s presence. Our prayers, prayed under the influence of God’s own Spirit, remain in His memory all our lives and beyond. When we remember that He remembers, it is easier to approach God in prayer. We come to Him not alone, but accompanied by a host of believers whose prayers for us are in God’s bundle.

When Abigail met David, who was not yet the king, and offered him food for the men who followed David, she said to him, “Even though someone is pursuing you to take your life, the life of my lord will be bound securely in the bundle of the living by the Lord your God, but the lives of your enemies He will hurl away as from the pocket of a sling.” (1 Samuel 25:29) Abigail knew that the revenge that David sought would wreck his unique relationship to Israel’s God. She was protecting not only her own home, which David might have destroyed, but the heritage of David himself as God’s chosen king.

More than all this, God gave us His son, who presented the disciples with a prayer straight out of God’s bundle of life. The Lord’s Prayer is a gift from the Father to son, and to all of us, that we may partake of the goodness in the Father’s bundle of life. Jesus shared his birthright with all of us when he gave the Lord’s Prayer to us.

Mary received God’s bundle of life when her baby was placed in her arms. It is God’s plan that each of us receive that bundle and find His life in it. God loves to see His bundle grow and flourish. Jesus said, “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly,” (John 10:70)

Love in Him,

Prue