I continue to struggle with some of the non-answers that I feel I’m getting to prayer. Why did God not heal the young mother who is struggling with cancer? I don’t have answers to that. There are many questions like that but I will have to wait for answers and eternity.
Other situation’s I find where there might be no point in praying for people. Is it going to do any good asking God to heal someone from a condition that they tend to make worse by their behaviors and activities? Let me give you a silly example.
Let’s say that you have a child who keeps getting bitten by snakes. I can pray for healing from the bite. I can pray that the child will no longer be bitten by snakes. Those are legitimate prayers. Will God answer those prayers? Not if the child in question continues with his habit of sticking a hand down into burrows he finds in the ground. Let me ask you, what happens when you stick your hand down in a hole where a snake lives? Can you expect God to shield you from such stupidity?
I often wonder if many of our prayers are simply not answered because the people we are praying for refuse to change their behavior. Usually there is no way to find out so I will err on the safe side.
homo unius libri
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Opus 2024-307: Pointless Prayer
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