A friend of mine blogged this comment last night:

When I first got out of the house, the weather seemed to pack in a lil bit and I prayed and asked God to give me just one hour of non-raining. Just 1 hour… and it didn’t rain. Was somewhat cool and chilly sometimes but not a drop of rain. Thank you Lord!

This got me thinking. Should we really be asking for G-d to make it stop raining?

Sure there are times when we are in severe drought and we need rain, or we have bad flooding and we need the rain to stop. But to pray for it not to rain so you can just fulfill your own private personal desire seems a little bit selfish.

Sure G-d is meant to be our best friend, and we are meant to pray to him day and night. However isn’t this meant to be about honouring G-d rather than him giving us our own wants?

This made me think of the clip from Bruce Almighty where Bruce decides to answer all the prayers to God with yes. It turns out that it wasn’t the best idea out. You can see the first part of the clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFlVr3ysCy0

We are meant to have faith as small as mustard seeds. But does this mean that we should be asking for things as small as mustard seeds to happen in our life? I thought we were given a little bit more independence than that.