Christ. So I pray—almost constantly—for God to do what I cannot. That’s the heartbeat of prayer, isn’t it? We pray because we’re convinced of our insufficiency. We pray because we know that Christ’s words in John 15:5 are true: “Without me, you can do nothing.” We pray because we are haunted by our impotence and humbled by God’s omnipotence. Psalm 127:1–2 drives this point home. Again and again the text reminds us how “vain” our best efforts are apart from God’s work. It is vain to labor on a temple (or