More from Paul Miller's A Praying Life

"We don't like God too close, especially if God is a deity we can't control. We have a primal fear of walking in the garden with God, naked, without clothing. We desperately want intimacy, but when it comes, we pull back, fearful of a God who is too personal, too pure."

He talks about how God is both infinite and personal. God is majestic and humble. God is Lord and Shepherd. As begin to understand these things, prayer becomes more easily understood and at the same time hard to grasp. He says, "Trying to dissect how prayer works is like using a magnifying glass to try to figure out why a woman is beautiful. If you turn God into and object, he has a way of disappearing. We do the same thing when a spouse or a friend treats us like an object, we pull back.

"If you are going to enter this divine dance we call prayer, you have to surrender your desire to be in control, to figure out how prayer works. You've got to let God take the lead. You have to trust. Then God will delight you."

My prayer for myself, my family, my church and all who read this is that God would reveal his infinite and personal nature to you today. It is also that you would let go of your grip of control and rest in the wonder of relationship with Jesus. Let it go and swim in the sea.