The beautiful thing about American Christianity is that it offers options. We can talk about revival all day long and come away thinking, “Wow. What an uplifting conversation.”

The wonderful thing is we never really to do anything about it.

Same thing with prayer. We can talk all day long. But in America, we have the option of actually NOT praying! It’s a beautiful system!

Why disturb things? Why kick things up? Why stir the pot?

A.W. Tozer talks about fallow ground and plowed ground. The fallow ground is nice. It’s undisturbed. It’s an environmentalist’s dream, and we should all be more environmentally conscious, right?

Tozer says:

The fallow field is smug, contented, protected from the shock of the plow and the agitation of the harrow. Such a field, as it lies year after year, becomes a familiar landmark to the crow and the blue jay. Had it intelligence, it might take a lot of satisfaction in its reputation; it has stability; nature has adopted it; it can be counted upon to remain always the same while the fields around it change from brown to green and back to brown again. Safe and undisturbed, it sprawls lazily in the sunshine, the picture of sleepy contentment.

So realize, we always have this wonderful option of NOT praying. Who wants to disturb a beautiful field, anyway?