Similarly there is a break between a person and the Holy Creator God, Lord and Master of the Cosmos barriers go up when we violate our relationship with Him. And until we address that violation, that break, that barrier until we do that first there is no sense with moving on in prayer. There are all kinds of ways you could think about it - Those of you with a hearing aid, think of sin as some sinister force that drains the juice out of your battery so that the hearing aid goes dead. It s like a faulty tuner on your TV satellite system which prevents you from picking up your favorite signal, leaving you only snow on the screen. It s like a huge brick wall that goes up between you and the neighbour so that you can t wave across the fence anymore.
Contact is broken.
When you re in this position there s no sense carrying on. No sense trying to hold a conversation until you put a new battery in the hearing aid. No sense scheduling an evening to watch TV until the tuner is fixed. No sense heading to the backyard for some neighbourly rapport until the wall is torn down. Perhaps the depth of violation of the relationship between God and ourselves doesn t keep us awake at night, or stare us in the face while we re at our work station during the week.