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60. Lessons from Evan Almighty
Let me ask you something. If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience? Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient? If he prayed for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous? If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other? - Evan Almighty, 2007
Laying on the couch in my pjs, watching Evan Almighty, it’s hard to ignore some profound truths in it that are actually pretty Biblical. Regardless of whether this movie was meant to be more silly and comical than anything, it displays, to a small extent, what God is like and how He answers prayer.
God isn’t like some genie willing to grant you your wishes. There is so much more depth to be understood about who He is (a lot that we may never understand), but what I am figuring out more and more is that He cares so much more about the development of our character and heart than our immediate comfort. He knows more than our mortal minds can comprehend, including what we need and what is best for us.
8For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
9(N) For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.Isaiah 55:8-9
