Prayer: what do you want to do?

Ever have the feeling that you're pounding on God's door, asking for answers, and He just doesn't seem to be answering?

Yeah, me too.

But today, I had a thought-provoking realization...

What if God doesn't answer, not because He doesn't want to or because he can't hear us or cannot act, but because we're pounding on the wrong door, asking the wrong questions?

Rather than really asking Him to act, we're just asking what we should do. Reality is (often times)... we've already made up our minds, so we're not really asking him; we're just asking for validation of our own decisions. An exit stamp on our passports, if you will.

What if that's not the right question?

What if the right question is "What do you want to do here?" "Where are you at work?" "What question would you love to answer?"

"What do you want?" rather than "Here's what I want; what do you think?"