Question in the title implies that prayer is often experienced as a difficult. This is not surprising, on the contrary, rather, corresponds to the idea in everyday people, who was under the influence of the difficulties have become disenchanted with the prayer, reciting her ceasing ...In this situation, questions and seek answers: why it happens, that prayer comes from the difficulty? If at the same time, we mean prayer in the Christian sense, this question involves starting with a more fundamental issue - the difficulty of Christianity itself. Here raise additional questions. Is Christianity is difficult? And if so, why?
Since prayer is an essential part of Christian life, we must begin by considering the last question to go to the answer to the first title. Expresses the essence of Christianity, the Gospel of Jesus, or the Good News. This means that in the first place is the good news of Jesus, not difficult ... Good and attractive are also the most important of its truth. For the Good News of Jesus summarized in the words, which began his teaching: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God" (Mk 1:15). These words mean that the waiting time for the fulfillment of God's promises finally came to an end. Announced by the prophets, the revelation of God as King and Lord of Israel and the whole of reality is "close" was in Jesus, in his words and characters, and above all in his person. He works with the power of God's Spirit, stronger than evil, which can "dump" of the people as a sign for them, "has come to you, the kingdom of God" (Luke 11:20). Here, however, closer to the problems ... Good News to accept without difficulty and with great enthusiasm by those who in themselves can experience the healing power of God in Jesus and through him. Able to certify that they had been freed from evil. Their lives took on new meaning, the love they have suffered, which they lacked, all joy in living the truth, which was subsequently formulated by the beloved disciple of Jesus as a new form of the Good News: "God is love" (1 Jn 4,8.16). Why is the Gospel of Jesus provoked opposition, and almost from the beginning? Evil spirits, "thrown away" by him, did not yield a win ... They knew that Jesus and His Good News to them are fatal. Sam's proximity meant that the evil began to activate, show (cf. Mk 1.23 ff.) Though freed from the evil they had doubts about the power of God acting in Jesus, his opponents began to multiply difficulties. When they felt threatened by him, then betrayed by his attitude that, in themselves evil work in secret, clouding their eyes, encouraging the rejection of Jesus and the Gospel. They moved to that his complete work assigned by evil spirit, it was Jesus said these words about the Spirit of God as a sign of God's reign. Thus the Good News appears to be difficult - not for those who experience its power, but for all, which raises an objection. But whether such an approach also in us, as Christians, does not have opposition? Can we not find many statements in the Gospel of Jesus and demands that seem difficult to accept? We recall that the students had difficulty with the adoption and announcement of the Cross calls the "denial" of themselves. As long as this did not understand, the contrary, they were able to "denial" - to Jesus, how could he be convinced of this Peter as the "first" humanly ... This clearly shows the difficulty of the beloved disciple in the last gospel. In response to Christ's words "a number" of students "said," This is a hard question. Who can hear it? " Jesus knew that his disciples murmured at it, he said to them: "It was worse? And when ye shall see the Son of man will ascend to where he was before?" (John 6.60 ff.) That is to say: Summit difficulties altogether scandal in the face of Jesus and His Good News is the mystery of the Cross, where there seems to be good to win, just evil ... At that moment, when the Good News of Jesus' disciples seemed difficult, many of them "are withdrawn and no longer with him, it was not" (Jn 6.66). Made their choice: experiencing difficulties, turned against the Gospel. Turning away from Jesus, have adopted the same perspective of an evil spirit, who sees in the Gospel is not good, but bad news, threatening him, as manifested by the final kingdom of God as love. We also are called on to decide when to wake up in the Gospel of our resistance. We have a choice: whether awakening difficulties assigning the Gospel itself, as if she was inhuman, wicked, or rather acknowledge that the difficult is our sinful affection, from which the Gospel wants us out. In other words, if we choose the gospel despite the evil that is in us is revealed through her, or rather we succumb to evil, which is afraid because he knows that the Good News proclaims the end of it.