Having been a follower of Christ for so long, I still wonder why God doesn’t do more miracles in answering our good and reasonable prayers. I know the answers intellectually, but on an emotional level, I have to keep asking God to remind me that though he slay me, still I will follow.<\/p>\n
Here are a few reflections today when God does not answer my prayers:<\/p>\n
He wants me to love the Giver more than the gift.<\/p>\n
He wants to remind me in my suffering of His ultimate suffering on the Cross and his love for me.<\/p>\n
He wants me to experience that His grace is sufficient.<\/p>\n
He wants me to experience Him as the Good Shepherd who is walking with me in the valley of the shadow of death.<\/p>\n
He wants me to grow deeper in seeking Him, not just seek a quick answer to a problem.<\/p>\n
He wants me to experience suffering so I have compassion for those who suffer, thus know more of the compassion heart of God.<\/p>\n
He wants me to not get too comfortable in this world.<\/p>\n
He wants me to not put my hope in this world.<\/p>\n
He wants me to know that the greatest treasure is not what this world has to offer but that I already have the greatest treasure in Him.<\/p>\n
Unanswered prayer doesn’t matter that much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having been a follower of Christ for so long, I still wonder why God doesn’t do more miracles in answering our good and reasonable prayers. I know the answers intellectually, but on an emotional level, I have to keep asking God to remind me that though he slay me, still I will follow. Here are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1,25,43,20,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-47","category-general","category-spiritual-life","category-stuff-to-remember","category-thoughts-on-life","category-to-my-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}