When God’s Answers Seem Wrong to Us (1 Sam 20.13, 16)
“May the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.”
“May the LORD seek out the enemies of David.”
Background
In prayer, we are often seeking God’s will for us and others. We are called to do so (e.g., Col 1.9). Some passages even suggest that whatever we pray for, we will get (Mark 11.24).1 Even if there were no passages about seeking the will of God, we would be led to do so by the nature of our faith. If God is our Creator and Sustainer, and the sovereign God of the universe, and desires a relationship with us, then we would want to know what He wants from us, and how he wishes us to live.
Yet what happens when He wants something different for us than we expect? Or something from us that we do not believe we deserve? How do we know that what we believe God wants for us is actually what he wants?
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