{Thoughts from Dayspring...}
I flipped open my Bible to this verse this morning and it caught my eye. At some point, I had highlighted it and written under it, “I don’t ever want that!”
"He gave them exactly what they asked for—
but along with it they got an empty heart."
Psalm 106:15 MSG
And I don’t. This got me thinking. Thinking about a Garth Brooks’ song that says, “Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers.”
Even though there is often much that I don’t understand, when lives are lost, diseases win, and good people suffer as the bad flourish. Yet, I know this world is sick and my God is good and I make the choice to trust Him even if His ways are not my ways.
But…Sometimes I need to thank God for unanswered prayers.
So think back over your life about those things you once had begged God for. That job you wanted, that person you wanted, that thing you had to have -- but you didn’t get. Focus on those prayers you prayed, that now when looking back, you are so grateful He didn’t give you your heart’s desire. Then thank Him.
Because like the verse above, I know many of the desires I had once prayed for desperately would have resulted in complete wreckage in my life, had Jesus granted my requests. I can almost laugh at how ridiculous these hopes were just a few short years ago. And I thank Him for unanswered prayers.
Join me today in that gratefulness.
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