Why Paul’s Prayer Not Granted by God: Now Clarified
God does not generally answer prayers of humans including His own servants! The workers of God shall only act when inspired, not to be influenced by their preferences!
GOD PREFERRED PAUL REMAIN SICK
Did you know that Paul’s plan to promote God was disapproved by God Himself despite godly intentions? We cannot calculate God.
God has wide range of strategies beyond human reach. This is the reason there are numerous biblical passages met with skepticisms because of contradictions that obscure the streaming flow of human understanding. But God has far better reasons in the way He does things. To see the general picture of God’s matters, one must look over at higher viewpoint.
PAUL PRAYED THREE TIMES
In 2 Corinthians 12:8-9, Paul prayed three times for healing in his desire to be freed from the burdens of sickness toward becoming bolder in preaching, thus, generating more people for God. However, despite his act of good cause, it was denied flatly. Why? God has another thing in mind. Interestingly, Paul deduced God’s denial or disapproval to mean something but different from what God intends.
PAUL’S IDEA IS RELEVANT
When he was told by God to “remain as is” or sustain continually the “thorn in the flesh to afflict him,” Paul, in his idea, concluded God’s denial to be good for him, particularly to prevent him from becoming boastful and arrogant, which is a strong tendency for anyone given “power to speak” and which behavior is anathema to God. This was Paul’s idea and Paul was one point correct.
PAUL’S BASIC ORIENTATION vs GOD’S INTENTION
Paul looked at what was apparent. But God had a higher point. He was looking at the overall impact of preaching to the world and decided the message would be better preached and more effective if Paul preached while sick, saying, “My power works best in weakness:”
“My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness” (2 Cor 12:9).
GOD’S REAL REASON
It is clear that Paul’s sickness or weakness does not primarily aimed to guard his humility from breaking down. What is paramount to God is the preaching carried out by one who is weak due to sickness, like Paul.
GOD’S WAY IS NOT HUMAN WAY
God wants preaching done in a manner shunned by people in order to shame the wise and strong of this world in reference to 1 Corinthians 1:27. But you may ask: Is He making fool of people? No. Is not God love? Yes. One reason God works this way is to let humans realize how much they’ve gone far away from truths. In fact, humans are now exactly opposite God at “180-degree angle.”
GOD’S WORKERS MOVE BY INSPIRATION ONLY
God does not allow His humans servants to plan for His Work, not even think for action plans. They just need to wait for empowerment by inspiration even without prior notice.
To be continued . . .
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