Why pray? To praise GOD? For thanksgiving? We pray for GOD to intervene and make a change in our lives. Can my prayer change the course of events? I know GOD can. But does my prayer affect GOD?
Omnipresent. Omniscient. Can a GOD who is everywhere and knows everything be persuaded to alter the inertia of life due to my prayers? What arrogance it is to think so. But if our prayers cannot change events then we all must be fatalists. Everything that occurs is preset.
Our minds are bound in the here and now. We cannot fully comprehend the majesty of GOD. Is it any different with prayer?
Yes GOD is omniscient. But yes JESUS told us: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives and he who seeks find, and to him who knocks it will be opened (Matthew 7:7-8 NASB).
There is a tension, a balancing act. GOD knows all but yet we are called to approach the throne with our prayers and petitions. Who are we to dare to approach the Creator of the Universe with our requests? We are HIS children. We are HIS beloved. And HE cares about our cares.
LORD, we cry out to you. The important, the small, the life-changing and the meaningless. YOU hear all. And we thank YOU.
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