Up until recently, I have found it difficult to pray for blessings for myself, family, or friends. We know the Christian life is to be one of hardship (for the most part), right? So it seems to me that praying for blessings is praying to avoid hardship, thus praying to not face the life of a Christian. If it makes me or my family or friends happy, then it would be selfish to ask for. Extremely stated, we should be praying for more and more troubles and fewer and fewer blessings. I know my logic here is false somehow, after all, we also know that "Ye have not because ye ask not" and God truly wants to bless us. I also have thought in the past that we should honestly be looking at troubles as blessings, and good things are just accidental bonuses. I do pray now for such blessings, but honestly just b/c I feel it can't hurt -- and the whole not-praying bit was seriously destroying my Realationship. Any takers out there? Thanks to all, and God bless.
2007-08-26
07:37:44
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