One of my favorite songs from Garth Brooks is called "Unanswered Prayers." It says so much within it that some people may not realize sure it is about relationships, but unanswered prayers could be blessings in disguise. How many of us have asked God to give us something we wanted or to give us something we think we needed and deserved? Pretty much all of us. Too often we get angry at God for not answering all of our prayers and whenever he doesn't answer them either it is not the right time or what we want isn't what God wants for us.
Too often we expect God to answer our prayers simply because we love Him and believe in Him. But that isn't the point of prayers and there will be times when our prayers will go unanswered. Unanswered prayers are God's way of showing us His love for us. What would we get out of having everything that we want? Wouldn't you think God would want to make sure things are good for us, and like I said half of the things that we want isn't good for us.
Too often in the past I had prayed for things that looking back on it weren't good for me, including relationships. God has plans for our lives and he does leave prayers unanswered so that his goal for our lives can be accomplished. Unanswered prayers help us see a bigger picture better, at least thats what I think. When we look back on life and see the prayers we wanted and see how better our life has become because of those unanswered prayers. We cannot let these unanswered prayers make us question God or ask him why all the time. Instead when we look back on things, thank him for the unanswered prayers and see the blessing within them; I know I have and still am. God doesn't answer our prayers because he wants to see us suffer or be in pain, he doesn't answer some because he knows its for our own good.
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