This morning at church I was asked to pray for a young man in a coma after a fall. The gentleman said,"As you know the more people who pray,the more likely he is to be healed." Is this really the case? Will God only answers prayers if they are backed up by lots of people? Is God sitting on a cloud waiting for the right number of people to pray before he acts? This is not the God I worship. My God knows the end from the beginning . Prayer is more a question of bringing ourselves in line with His wishes. When His will is done all is well even though we sometimes find it difficult to live with. You can't twist God's arm, don't try. Commit everything to Him and accept His will. I did pray for the young man and of course would wish him a good recovery, but my will is puny. I leave him safely in God's hands.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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