Have you ever prayed one of those idiotic prayers where you say something stupid like, “God, if you give me a parking space right in front, I will never doubt you again!”<\/p>\n
I thought I was a mature Christian who was not subject to immature bargains with God, yet…<\/p>\n
When I was shopping yesterday with Amy, I was desperate for Amy to find a pair of shoes in her size. I don’t like shopping, but we needed to buy her black shoes for a concert. Here was a pair that almost<\/em> fit her, at a price I was willing to pay, but we needed it 1\/2 a size bigger!<\/p>\n I looked up and down the shelves but only saw a pair one size bigger and one size smaller. “Please God, let there be a pair in 5 1\/2, not 5 and not 6. I will never doubt your love for me again if you get me this pair of shoes in 5 1\/2!” Totally stupid and immature, I know.<\/p>\n But you know, God indulges us sometimes.<\/p>\n I swear I looked on those shelves at least 3 times and didn’t find a 5 1\/2. And guess what? You got it. Right after I prayed, Amy says, “Oh, here is a 5 1\/2!”<\/p>\n “Oh depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful woman!”<\/p>\n As Peter owned up to his own inadequacy and his lack of faith, so I once again see that God is so much bigger than I am, all-knowing, all-loving. It’s not that I doubted God’s love for me, but I am just an immature silly little kid. And God smiles at me as a loving Father, puts a gentle arm around me, sort of ruffles up my hair and says, “Of course I am here for you. ”<\/p>\n Thank you, Dad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever prayed one of those idiotic prayers where you say something stupid like, “God, if you give me a parking space right in front, I will never doubt you again!” I thought I was a mature Christian who was not subject to immature bargains with God, yet… When I was shopping yesterday with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","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=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}