C. H. Dobb wrote, “Prayer is about redirecting our desires according to the mind of God.” My prayer life and my relationship with God that I am striving for, is said best by a philosopher named Epictetus, “Have courage to look up to God and say, deal with me as you will from now on. I am yours. I flinch from nothing as long as you think that it is good. Lead me where you will; put on me what clothing you will. Would you have me hold office or refuse it, stay or flee, be rich or poor? For all this I will defend you before men.”
His will not ours. Easy words to say but difficult when we have scars that are the result from a lifetime of suffering that we have asked God to remove and yet they remain. I am learning how to live with those scars by acknowledging them to God and asking for His strength to see me through. I have prayed for healing and there are times my prayers seems to fall silent. It’s hard to imagine that a thorn in my flesh sometimes is to be endured.
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