To meet the Apostle Paul would have been an exciting prospect.  It would also have been very intimidating.  In his letters he is very intense and writes with great purpose.  Paul’s great desire is to preach Christ and him crucified.  To have him in your Bible Study would also be interesting.  I would feel as though my prayer life was never going to get even close to the level of Paul’s.  As far as the content of his prayers, they also can be a little foreign to the way we normally pray.  This is what makes reading the New Testament so challenging.  As we live in 2010 we have many distractions that take our focus away from following Christ with the same intensity that we see from Paul.  I encourage you to read his letters and to be encouraged to make Jesus number one in all areas of your life.

Colin Watson