God Gives What You Are Able to Receive

Ever wonder why some of our prayers takes a long time before it get answered? Or even never answered at all?

Most of our prayers are filled with petitions. God grant us this, God grant us that and so on. And we almost always assume that our petitions are good to us or to the person we are praying for. We only see what is favorable in our petitions. And we seldom think of what other consequences could happen if our prayers or petitions get answered. We often have the idea we know better.

But do we?

Each prayer answered is a blessing from God. Each blessing from God comes with a responsibility. The responsibility to use that blessing for love’s sake. To give an irresponsible person a blessing is to waste the blessing.

We shall receive what are capable of receiving. Imagine your son asking for a car. Sounds fair enough right? But you son is only 12 years old. Even though the car is good in itself, the capacity of your son to drive that car is not yet ready. To give him the car is not only foolishly irresponsible, but life threatening. Until your son reaches a certain age of maturity, he is not capable of handling it.

So how do we prepare ourselves for our prayers and petitions?

We need to be holy like Jesus is holy.

The more we become holy and virtuous, the more we able to handle God’s blessings. The more we become holy, the more we can understand what the blessing is all about. And God’s blessings are not only for us. God blesses us to bless others.

If you feel that your prayers are not getting answered, maybe you are praying for the wrong things. Or maybe you are not yet ready to have it. Until then, all you can do is to prepare yourself. Expand your heart, your soul that it would be able to handle what you are praying for.

There is no reason for God to withhold something that is for your own good.

We only get what we can handle.

And Thank God for that!

Written by Daxx Bondoc