Bit of My Theology
It gives me some food for thought when people say ‘Its God
will’ and everything that happens is ‘Gods Will’. I am not so sure. If that was the case, why does Jesus tell us
to ask God that ‘His will be done’ if it’s going to be done anyway, seems a
sort of waste of time.
Rather it seems to me that God will is affected by my free
will. Can God change his mind, yes of
course he can and there are lots of examples in the Bible of this. Can I go
against what God wants or wills, most certainly, not a good Idea but it
certainly can be done.
Does God change his Plans dependant on my pleas and of
course the pleas of others. Yes of
course He can and does. Does God give us
sometime the things we ask for even though they are not good for us, yes
certainly especially if you nag Him enough.
Again not a good idea, but certainly it happens and it’s not good. For those who need Bible, to back up my
theology, just check (2 Kings 20 or 1 Kings 11)
I think it’s very humbling that God will ask my opinion and
he can change things according to my requests.
The thing we do have to note here, is that God does promise
to make things ‘work for Good to those who love him and are called according to
his purposes,’ even though the thing that maybe has happened was not His will,
nevertheless He will make it good for some.
So how do we know that it was an answered prayer? That’s a hard one, especially when there are
lots of people praying for opposite things.
However it is much easier on the smaller scale, when one asks God for
those things that are seemingly strange, out of reach, or just plain
impossible, and He answers prayer. Many
who do not believe in prayer put it down to ‘coincidences’ my delight is that
when I pray I get a coincidence.
Seems
like answered prayer to me. Check out
just one of those answers:(http://adrianhawkes.co.uk/index.php/2013/08/the-answer-my-friend-is-blowing-in-the-wind.html)
So are these latest political events answers to prayer, I
don’t know, am I allowed to say, I don’t know?
Maybe they are, then again maybe they are not, or maybe I hope not, they
are one of those Quail events we shall see.
Then of course we come back to those coincidences that I
have harked on about many times on my Blog.
It seems to me that it’s possible to get a coincidence by praying, maybe
that’s answered Prayer? Of course for
those who cannot envisage a God who is personally interested in us, and will
actually communicate two ways with us then all of the prayers, answered or
otherwise are just part of the accident of nature?
There seems to me to be some great planning
going on somewhere.
Adrian Hawkes
Edited: Keith Lannon
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