Yesterday I asked two questions:

Where are you placing your trust?

Where are you seeking your blessing?

As I have been thinking about this, I would suggest that our prayer lives help us answer these questions.  If we trust in God in the midst of trials, we will look to him in prayer for those trials.  If we seek God for blessings, we will look to him in prayer for those blessings.  The more we trust God, the more we will pray.  The more we seek our blessings from him, the more we will pray.

On the other hand, if our prayer lives are small, I suspect our trust in God is likewise small.  If we pray only a little, we are seeking God for blessings only a little.  A small prayer life suggests that we may be trusting in something else, that we are seeking blessings somewhere else, that we are looking to an idol.

What does your prayer life reveal about you?