The Lord's Prayer, Don't Let Bad Things Happen to You

Some prayers aren't answered an the way we think they should be, because our understanding and expectations of god are wrong. I know a number of people who have lost their faith because of unanswered prayer. This side of jesus return, there are beautiful moments when god steps in to protect you and me from suffering. And those mimic moments are a glimpse of the future. When these things happen, we are granted a tantalizing foretaste of the new creation. All things will conspire with unbounded complexity to perpetuate beauty and harmony for the glory god. That's where we're headed. But we're not there yet. We're still in rout and so we wait, and i