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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: But it is our duty and obligation to pray if we would be Christians, as
much as it is our duty and obligation to obey our parents and the
government; for by calling upon it and praying the name of God is
honored and profitably employed. This you must note above all things,
that thereby you may silence and repel such thoughts as would keep and
deter us from prayer. For just as it would be idle for a son to say to
his father, "Of what advantage is my obedience? I will go and do what
I can; it is all the same"; but there stands the commandment, Thou
shalt and must do it, so also here it is not left to my will to do it
or leave it undone, but prayer shall and must be offered at the risk of
God's wrath and displeasure.
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