A beautiful balance must exist between hope and action. Between prayer and intention.
If I pray for patience, and expect to magically become patient, I’m not sure I’m praying with the right intentions. With that attitude, I’m wishing for a quick fix. I doubt God would be so willing to give a man patience who won’t intentionally practice patience in the face of frustrations. I also feel like God is upset when somebody won’t go to Him in prayer because he wishes to do it all himself.
Maybe it isn’t a balance. Maybe there’s a right way to go about prayer, and many wrong ways.
Maybe the solution is simply to hope with confidence, in faith, to pray with intention, doing all you can to see your hope realized, while always trusting that God is faithful.
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