I wonder how may we weary the Lord and
how often do we do it? It seems to me like we miss the boat when it comes to
what we pray for. We are prone to pray in an unbiblical manner. We ask for
things that we know are not good for us. We ask the Lord to bless our willful
desires instead of what He desires for us. We insist that the Lord respond to
our prayers our way, instead of as He knows best. We pray repeatedly for the
Lord to change His mind over that which He has clearly made known to us. We ask
the Lord to act according to our timetable instead of His. In other words, the
Lord is often treated as if He were not our Lord but our genie in a bottle who
must grant us our wishes at our beckon and call.
When we pray outside of the will of God
for us, we weary the Lord in our praying. He will never give us what we pray
for when it is not for our good and His glory. If we pray according to His
will, we will have what we pray for. And, the only way we can know that we are
praying in His will is for us to live close enough to Him that our wills will
be one with His.
We weary the Lord when we fail to let Him
judge by His standards, in His own way, and in His own time. The Lord knows what He is doing and will make
things right when the time is right. We
don’t always see things as the Lord does and must succumb to His sovereign will
and not our own. We must learn to trust
Him and not doubt Him when it seems like evil prevails.
Take
a close look at how you view life and respond to it. Do you strive to see things through God’s
eyes? Do you respond through the flesh
or the Spirit? Instead of making God
weary because of the way you think and live, strive to live submissively and
according to His revealed truths and will.
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