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Interests => Religious Discussions => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on February 11, 2014, 09:42:03 AM
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I got this from Zionca Christian News today in my email.
When God Does the Miracle We Didn’t Ask For
February 8, 2014 by Vaneetha Rendall Demski
Topics: Suffering
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Countless childhood surgeries. Yearlong stints in the hospital. Verbal and physical bullying from classmates. Multiple miscarriages as a young wife. The unexpected death of a child. A debilitating progressive disease. Riveting pain. Betrayal. A husband who leaves.
If it were up to me, I would have written my story differently. Not one of those phrases would be included. Each line represents something hard. Gut wrenching. Life changing.
But now, in retrospect, I wouldn’t erase a single line.
Honestly, it is only in hindsight that I can make such a bold statement. Through all of those devastating events, I begged God to deliver me. To save my baby, to reverse my disease, to bring my husband back. Each time God said no.
Instead of Deliverance
“No†was not the answer I wanted. I was looking for miraculous answers to prayer, a return to normalcy, relief from the pain. I wanted the kind of grace that would deliver me from my circumstances.
This dovetails rather nicely with the thought: God always answers prayers; sometimes, the answer is "no."
The thing that we need to do is to respond to the "no" in the proper way . . .
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/when-god-does-the-miracle-we-didn-t-ask-for
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Ahhh but you get what you ask for.
A small premie and parents pray for its life. Bargain with God, Let this child live and we will care for the child and love them come what may.
Child lives and thrives, for the first 3 years, then as it goes into it's mid- 6-8 years shows some disturbing dark side. Child becomes most odd, sets the cat on fire and seems to enjoy it.
The other children in the family seem scared of the child and no bonds between the child or it's brothers or sisters are ever seen. Child has no bond with either parent, but, the promise to God to care for this child is strong within the parents, we will care and protect this child.
These things happen, you get what you ask for.