856) So much of our lives are no longer private, thanks to the Internet and social media. You don’t even have to post regularly and your digital footprint is being recorded. I’m glad that I don’t know to what extent my life is not private because I think it would freak me out.

In Matthew 6:5-8, Jesus speaks of something that needs to be private and that is our prayer life. He tells us that when we pray for and about certain things; we are to do this so no one else will see. I don’t think this means that public prayers should not be offered. I believe Jesus is addressing the motive a person might have for praying in public.

We don’t know the motives of others and we would be wrong to judge them, but Jesus is reminding us that God knows our motives. We need to wrap our prayer-life around this.