I was on my way home from the store,listening to someone talk about faith and prayer. What he was saying really struck me. He talked about unanswered prayers and that they:
- are times to rebuild our faith. The distance between us and God seems to grow, but He uses that time to help us in our faith. That is as long as we allow Him too.
- Our prayers don't go unanswered. Our problem is that we are looking at everything from a here and now perspective. That's not how God views things. His time is not our time. He doesn't just instantly answer our prayers, because then He would be a genie, not God.
I think my favorite thing he talked about though was that when we are praying, and praying, and praying, and praying, our desperate asking becomes desperate seeking, which then becomes desperate knocking. Prayer doesn't just provide for the person in need, when we are desperately asking and then seeking and then knocking, it brings us so much closer to God. So as you're feeling far from Him, keep asking, seeking and knocking continually at His door, He'll answer when the time is right.
