The Prayer of Agur...What? Never heard of him?

I wouldn't name my first son after him but I do want to learn to pray like him.

"Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die:

Remove far from me falsehood and lying;

Give me neither poverty nor riches;

feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full and deny you and say, "Who is the Lord?" or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God."

Proverbs 30:7-9

Only the view of God which becomes big in our eyes and heart can cause us to pray this way. To pray that God would remove my desire to be false, more significant, more important, more achieving than I really am is different than every other American prayer. It is a hard way to pray when we desire God only give us what we need so that we will not think we are God and that we have done it for ourselves. Do you pray God would give or protect you and your stuff more, or do you pray that God would make you to be faithfully Jesus satisfied and God dependent?

Maybe we should name our sons after Agur and then show them how to pray these kinds of prayers.