vain prayer

One of the things I dislike about having a wordpress blog as a church website is that you are bombarded with spam in the comment box. They are always trying to sell you something or to draw attention to their website. God has the same reservation about us when we pray promoting our own self or what we perceive to be major accomplishments. Instead of being honest before God, we flood his “inbox” with spam filler. Luke 18:9-12 “And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.” It is a guarantee that this post will be spammed in praise for its content by the automated software program, and it will be oblivious to the self righteous pharisee who will go on praising themselves before God for their self-righteousness.