PRAYING
OUT OF EGO

Topics: Attitudes; Bondage; Ego; Self-centeredness

References: Romans 1:18–32; 6:16

Those people who pray know what most around them either don’t know or choose to ignore: centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is the sure path to doom. They know that life confined to the self is a prison, a joy-killing, neurosis-producing, disease-fomenting prison.

—Eugene Peterson, Where Your Treasure Is (Eerdmans, 1993)