I do not ask for such things.... I just always thank the lord for the protection, safety, and blessedness that He has already provided.
I feel so sorry for people who do not realize His blessed presence. To go around wondering if you are going to bonked by God is just so difficult for me to understand. It is so foreign to my relationship with Him. I would no more expect trouble from God than I would send trouble on my own children.
I am sorry if this offends some. This is my relationship with Him.
Why is it that when discussing your relationship with God, you should have any need at all to compare it to other people's relationship with God? Why does the comparison inevitably have to be how much better your relationship is than other people's?
Luke 18:9-14
9 And He also told this parable to some people who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and viewed others with contempt:
10 "Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: 'God, I thank You that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.'
13 "But the tax collector, standing some distance away,even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!'
14 "I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted."
