People
who pray don’t always know how God will answer their requests. I have two
friends who have specific requests for their children but do not know how God
will answer them.
One of
them, an online writing friend, summed it up this way: “We are placing
ourselves and this need in the grace and mercy of God”
My other
friend, a local lady, has asked for prayer about her son’s legal circumstance.
She and I are praying and waiting for God to intervene in this situation.
We all
have circumstances in our lives to which we don’t know the outcome. We can only
see what is in front of us. Another friend says it this way: “Only God can see
around corners.”
My
thought on this is that we can only see a small segment of what God sees; we
see a pixel and He sees the big picture.
As I
stated in another blog entry, we have to trust God. This means we have to trust
Him with our prayers and what He does with them. Sometimes, we don’t get the
outcome we desire but we have to remember that God is sovereign and He can do
what He wants to with our prayers and even with us.
I am
praying for a request for myself and a request for my church. There again, I
can only trust the LORD for His answer and His resolution of my concerns.