"Yet even when you do pray, your prayers are not answered, because you pray just for selfish reasons." James 4:3, CEV
Back in 1991, country singer Garth Brooks cowrote and recorded the song, "Unanswered Prayers." The lyrics center around a situation in which a man encounters his sweetheart from back in high school and introduces her to his wife (awkward!).
The man thinks back to when he had prayed so fervently for God to let him marry her-but it never happened! And now he thanks God for unanswered prayers as he looks at his wife and appreciates the lady God gave him, rather than the object of his adolescent desires.
At times in life we pray for something we don't get, then we wonder why "God didn't come throu...
