Your heavenly Father knows what you need before you ask him (Matt. 6:8). We sometimes pray for what we think we need but overlook what we really need. For instance, we may pray for health, material blessing, and opportunity, but what we really need is the ability to trust, the willingness to surrender our lives to God without qualification, and the grace to see the good in others and not their faults. These needs are just as real as our need for food, clothing, and money, since apart from grace to extend empathy and love toward others, we will never be truly happy. Love overlooks a multitude of sins; it looks beyond the present moment to see with compassion, of kindness, of empathy... What we really need, then, is to be after Gods own heart, to see other people as God sees them, and to overlook matters that offend or feed our sense of pride. This is what we truly need, and therefore we trust that the Lord our God mercifully decodes our apparent petitions to express what the Spirit of God groans on our behalf (Rom. 8:26).
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:43:44 +0000
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