Recently God answered some prayers that I had been praying for, and willing to let go if the answer was no... now that God said yes, I find myself in an even tougher situation... one of greater responsibility. It was easier when I was praying, and resigning myself to the possibility of not getting what I was asking. Has that ever happened to you?
When praying was the easy part?
Someone told me some time ago that having a lot was actually harder than having a little. He said that wealth plagued his thoughts, while he wanted to do the right thing... giving it away didn't seem the answer. He found himself in a quandary over how he should use it... I have never had that problem.... but what if I did?
Would I have the gravity to be a good steward of that kind of responsibility?
When I see the poverty in this world, I can't seem to see an easy answer... sometimes poverty is the very thing it takes to make people better, and wealth the opposite. Sometimes poverty makes people worse... and wealth the opposite. Are we to merely resign ourselves to the possibilities of poverty... or should we prepare for the answer to our prayers... and be ready for a change? IF we are unprepared for wealth, we may soon return to our former state, easier than our prayers being answered...
and our end worse than our beginning.
I think Solomon (the wisest man from the Bible) had it right, for once in his life anyway... when getting a "blank cheque" from God... best to PRAY FOR WISDOM!
"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." (James 4:1-3)