One of my favorite movies is the Christmas classic, A Christmas Story, the story of a little boy named Ralphie Parker growing up in Indiana in the 1950’s. Ralphie has been drinking Ovaltine for months, saving up box tops so that he could send in a get a Little Orphan Annie Secret Decoder Pin. Finally the secret decoder pin arrives. He listens to Little Orphan Annie on the radio, waiting for the secret code message. He carefully writes down the code and then rushes off to the bathroom to begin the decoding process. The suspense builds as he decodes the first few letters "Be sure to………Be sure to what?--the fate of the free world could rest in his hands. His pencil flies as he feverishly struggles to decode the rest of the message,….. "B E S U R E T O D R I N K Y O U R O V A L T I N E”
“A commercial, a crummy commercial!”
Sometimes you just don’t feel like you get what you asked for.
Our God is a God of love, and He is interested in every detail of our lives. He hears our prayers, and answers every sincere prayer if we meet His conditions. We must not expect that every answer will be "yes", since we are sinners and do not always ask what is best for us. Sometimes His answer is "No’ and sometimes it is "wait." (Hebrew 10:36) We need to end each prayer with, "Not my will but Your will." Even if we are sincerely doing God’s will, and to the best of our ability, following His will for us, He may see that it is best for us not for Him to say "yes" at this time. We must continue trusting Him, regardless of His answer at the moment.
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