I was at a Women of Faith event a couple of weekends ago and enjoyed the speakers although it was nothing like I thought it would be. Isn't it funny how our own expectations can get in our way...
One thought that was made by a speaker when referencing another woman she knew has bounced around in my head for the last two weeks. Or it might have been from our church pastor referencing someone else, I am not sure BUT the comment went something like this,
"God is either all loving or He is all powerful. He can not be both because if He was, then he would heal. But He doesn't. He would answer our prayers. But He doesn't. So that means He either doesn't love us or He doesn't have the power to do it." And when asked if this person prayed anymore, the response was, "Yes, but I don't ask for anything."
With all the pain in the world, it would be easy to see how someone could arrive at this conclusion. Children dying of cancer. Spouses betraying each other. Random violence. Children being sold in to sex trades. Infertility struggles. A parent losing a child from drugs or an accident. A teenager about to age out of the foster care system still wanting a "forever family". These people are not asking for sports cars or to win the lotto. They are asking for survival. It is an ugly world we live in.
You can understand the thoughts:
"Why pray when God can't do anything about it or He doesn't love me enough to do anything about it? Why pray boldly when the answer is silence? I begged of you and nothing. If you are going to do what you want, God, then why pray for anything."
Interesting, isn't it, the pondering of the how's, why's and the what for's of our God...
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