Prayer Is Not For Asking

If the answer is that it will be according to his will, then why ask.  Why provide input that will not be an influence in the making of decisions.  When the need is real and the request hardly outrageous, when the asking is sincere, it is still all right that there be an answer of no.  This, however, is a response we could hope would justify itself, if it would.  But there is no justifying, no clarification.  Better perhaps that prayer be an expression of acceptance, a ceding of control and declining to wish to understand.  Better to do away with the asking if it is such an unnecessary step.