Good Morning All,
Jeremiah 33:3; “Call
to me, and I will answer you. I will tell you great and mysterious things that
you do not know.”
“Listen, do you want to know a
secret?” That is the opening line of a
Beatle’s song. It is also the source of many of our thoughts and desires,
especially secrets about us. Do you ever wonder about your future? Do you ever
wonder about times in your life when you made a major decision and wonder how
your life would have been different? What if the line would have been busy when
you first tried to call your future spouse for the first time? What if your job
interviews would have been in a different order? What if the rain would have
come a little earlier? What if you would have trusted your instincts and bought
the land your neighbor tried to sell you a longtime ago?
What about all the prayers that you thought
went unanswered or at least not answered as you wanted? What about the times when
you prayed for something and someone else got it? Did you pray to get a job
that went to a friend? Did you pray for a child only to watch all your friends
having children? We sit and sometimes think God just does not listen or care. Yet
he clearly tells us something different. He promises to tell us great and
mysterious things.
The thing is that we need to listen to what
God is telling us. Too often, our prayers are more a shopping list or a
“honey-do” list. We go to God with this logic, “These are what I need and want
you to do; preferably right now!” Or we come to God with the attitude “well,
I’ve tried everything else; I guess I’ll ask God.” Neither of these are a very faithful or
faith-based way to pray. God calls us to come to him in faith and he will
answer. We pray according to his will and trust that his will is the best for
us. Sometimes what we want is not what is best for us. Sometimes what God has
in store for us is greater than anything we could even imagine. God answers our
prayers and always acts in our best interest.
This is why we encouraged to always pray “Thy
will be done.” This statement of faith recognizes that God knows best, his will
for us is perfect so we must trust His good and gracious will. He has promised
us abundant life but according to his definition and timeline. God will always
give the faithful believer exactly what he needs, when he needs it and in the
fashion that he needs it.
With this certainty, we can come before him
and boldly ask for what we need and even what we want; we know that God’s
answer will be what is best for us. This trust in God’s faithful answer will
show us things which we do not know and cannot even imagine. God answers our
prayers because He loves us, and He has promised to do so, and He is faithful
to His promise.
Dearest
Father, too often we look at the prayers that we want answered that we miss all
the ones that you have answered. Forgive us for missing the love and health of
family and friends, the beauty of creation, and the wondrous gift of our
salvation. You answer all our prayers and give us peace. In Jesus’ precious
name we pray, amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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