When God Winks at You by Squire Rushnell

Author:Squire Rushnell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-10-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

WINKS ON UNANSWERED PRAYER

My son Grant is now a sweet young man in his twenties, challenged by a residual brain injury, but he is articulate, holds a job, lives with friends of comparable skills, and derives great joy from music. Grant astonishes people with his uncanny ability to sing and remember the lyrics to hundreds and hundreds of songs, particularly country-western music.

One of his favorite performers is Garth Brooks, whose music I’ve heard scores of times when we travel by car. One song sticks in my mind: “Thank God for Unanswered Prayers.”

. . . just because he doesn’t answer, doesn’t mean he don’t care.

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.1

Garth Brooks was singing about a man who was somewhere with his wife when he suddenly encountered an old girlfriend. Years before, this was the girl of his dreams. He recalls that every night he prayed about her, asking God to “make her mine.”

Now with the clarity of hindsight, it strikes him that she wasn’t quite the angel he’d thought she was.

If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll probably remember that this has happened to you. Your hormones might have been screaming that you’d found Mr. Right—the love of your life—or the girl of your dreams. You prayed that this person would feel the same about you.

Then your prayer wasn’t answered. You wondered—or demanded—“Hey, God! Why aren’t You listening to me?”

Perhaps another time you were convinced you’d found exactly the right job; you prayed hard for it, and it went to somebody else.

Then there was the time that you wanted something badly —a trip, an apartment, an event. You prayed for it, and it didn’t happen.

In each case, your prayer was not answered.

At least not the way you had prescribed.

But then, with the clear view of time, you were later able to realize that unanswered prayers are sometimes a real blessing. You could see how that guy or girl would have been totally wrong for you; how that job would have prevented you from getting another, better job; or how that “something” that didn’t happen was actually not in your best interest.

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