During this past Sunday’s sermon Pastor Sam shared about a
time in his life where he was praying earnestly for God to answer prayer in a
particular way, but the answer he received was not the answer he longed for.
Perhaps some of us can relate to our pastor’s experience. We
rest on verses like “Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the
desires of your heart” (Psalm 37:4). We believe that we are walking with God,
and that we are on His wavelength… but then those moments come when our world
crumbles, and we are shocked that God has not answered our prayer in the way we
anticipated.
Pastor Sam noted that we operate out of partial knowledge, but God operates with complete knowledge. Our prayer, therefore, must be a humble disposition before the
Lord. Our pastor said: “We are saying, ‘Lord, we do not trust ourselves, we do not know what to
do by ourselves. We are depending on You.’” We embrace a disposition of dependence and hopefulness. We acknowledge that we cannot fully know the mind of
God, but we can fully depend on God to do what is right and good.
Why are we praying?
Is it for God to do what we
want Him to do for us, or is it for God to do what He wants to do in us?
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