It comes to mind again this morning that to ask for God's favor is to deny God's favor for he knows our needs and cannot not have fulfilled them already...we just haven't realized it yet. Which leads to the follow-up thought: That is right where we need be in order to honestly seek to know God's will for us.
If we are so stuck that we think we must seek special help, God's favor, we are clinging to a self-determined objective. We are clutching a want masquerading as a need, in short.
Until we go all the way to and through that stuck place, it is a surety that we will never realize God's will for us personally. It is by going all the way through that we reach our own ocean of despair...all alone, no lifeguard not even a dolphin to help us.
We have reached crash-and-burn. Truly, the blessing in disguise.
Some of us (the lucky few) give up...feeling hopeless, helpless and stupid into the bargain. Some (the lucky minority) give up, kvetching and shaking our fists at the heavens, but we give up. The unlucky ones do not give up...they sometimes go to their graves, maybe years later, still cursing their fate.
The wonderment of it is that God's will rarely looks like a gift, but it is. It is the pearl beyond price. There. Now we realize why the only prayer we will ever need pray is "Thank You!"
Thank you.
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