Asking and receiving

“And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace. And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.”

This was a massive event in the area at that time. The well watered plains of Sodom was now the Dead Sea area and the cities had disappeared. Abraham had debated with God about saving Sodom from this destruction but God understood his real motive and saved Lot from the destruction. There are many people today who tell us that God will give us whatever we ask for but that is not true. In James 4: 1-3, we read, “From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” We must ask in keeping with God’s will and not just ask for anything that we feel is good for me just now. In this case God understood Abraham’s real motive in asking for the salvation of Sodom and God gave Abraham his true desire. So often God will ask us to wait when we pray because the major emphasis with prayer is the actual process of communication. The more we pray the more our relationship with the True God of Creation develops. In the end that is the best thing that can happen to us.

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(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)