Its so awesome how God can show us things through the little things in life. One lesson I have learned today (not for the first time either) is that sometimes our prayers do not get answered because we fail to take action. I know that many times in my life I just expect God to 'magically' change my circumstances, when in reality, God has made the way for me and I just need to take action.
For instance (and this is really silly), for my geology class, my professor told me I could ask him questions about the quiz... so I definitely take advantage of that! Well, I e-mailed him about one of the quizzes and when it was almost time for the quiz to be due he still hadn't e-mailed me back! I was freaking out because I really needed help! So I was praying and praying that he would message me, and I went to church (it was Wednesday) and came home and he still had not answered me! And I was just like, "God, really? Come on, its been a whole day, could you please remind him to e-mail me back?" And it was like this little voice in my head says "Why don't you remind him?"
DUH! Seriously? So I sent him another e-mail and no lie, about ten minutes later he e-mailed me back.
Our God is a God of action. At my church there is really a burden to see the kingdom of God grow. We are a small church, and lately it has just been really discouraging. I'm telling ya, God and I have definitely had some talks about what is going on and its like He's telling me now, point blank, "Why don't you quit praying and start working?"
Whoa. I think this could change my life. Like faith without works is dead, so is prayer without action. If I really believed that God would answer my prayers then I should live as though He is going to.
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