an amateur understanding of how prayers work
Say we watch our little kids learn how to walk and they fall often. Sometimes they will stand up by themselves, and learn more about how to walk correctly.
Sometimes they do not want to get up by themselves and cry for help. Then as parents, our first instinct is to give them whatever they want. But at a second thought, we might need to consider if it is a good idea. Will it be better not to help this time so that they could learn something, such as they should not scatter the toys on the ground? It is for sure that if they really get hurt, we would run to rescue them.
So again, God is like the perfect parent. We send out our cry for help. He will not hesitate to give us what we truly need. But sometimes he let us figure out how to stand up on our own, in order that we could build our characters, or learn from our mistakes.
Also, through prayers we ask for God's attention. He might not interfere if we do not send him the invitation. But once we do, he will make sure there will be some good out of it.
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In "Prayer", Philip Yancey says that prayers help us have God's perspective. By praying, we could understand more of whom God designed us to be and what we could do for him, in addition to asking him to rescue us from the mess we have made.
I agree.
Sometimes they do not want to get up by themselves and cry for help. Then as parents, our first instinct is to give them whatever they want. But at a second thought, we might need to consider if it is a good idea. Will it be better not to help this time so that they could learn something, such as they should not scatter the toys on the ground? It is for sure that if they really get hurt, we would run to rescue them.
So again, God is like the perfect parent. We send out our cry for help. He will not hesitate to give us what we truly need. But sometimes he let us figure out how to stand up on our own, in order that we could build our characters, or learn from our mistakes.
Also, through prayers we ask for God's attention. He might not interfere if we do not send him the invitation. But once we do, he will make sure there will be some good out of it.
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In "Prayer", Philip Yancey says that prayers help us have God's perspective. By praying, we could understand more of whom God designed us to be and what we could do for him, in addition to asking him to rescue us from the mess we have made.
I agree.
posted by beneathwing at 4:42 PM
1 Comments:
I don't think that is an amateur understanding of prayer...I think its as accurate as we can have (unless this is a statement of how inferrior we are compared to God). Anywho, I think it is quite consistent with scripture and its for this reason the God head is refered to as the Father...the perfect father.
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