Dear Jane,
So, do we get mad? Do we get our feelings hurt? Do we decide we will pray no more? Do we wish we had never heard of prayer and go back to honing our pool game?
Personally, I pray WHILE honing my pool game !! :o) (if you ever saw me shoot pool you would agree that I should!!)
I love ya'lls conversation on and about prayer. I am WAY too limited on letting my God out of my little convenient box and although I wince I love every word ya'll are saying.
It is a hard thing to think cause on the one hand a sister(in Christ) spends three years suffering and dying with brain cancer, and goes to be with her Lord, praise God; while across town God heals a brother(again in Christ) of cancer, praise God. It is not a very easy thing to think and to a non- believer, it is WAY hard to say why this one and not the other? The non-believer does not want to begin to believe that God will allow this to happen, but it does, and He will.
I think one clue, is what Paul said to the church at Phillipi(sp?)
Phil 3:
3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:
5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
8 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
9 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
10 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
11 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.
Rev. 5:13 † |
