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To: Eucharista; CynicalBear
We should all want to go directly to God. However, because we lack perfection in the virtues of faith, humility, obedience, and love, we therefore lack perfection in our desire and direction. It is not unlike asking your wife to iron your shirt before you go to church.

It doesn't take perfection in any virtue to decide to go directly to God.

It's merely a choice we make whether we are going to obey His commands on who to pray to or not.

Those who believe Him and trust Him and take Him at His word will go to Him in prayer, believin He Himself will answer those prayers Himself.

Those who don't trust Him, who pray in unbelief, will go to someone else to try to get from God what they don't believe He will give them Himself.

514 posted on 04/21/2015 5:47:18 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom
Those who don't trust Him, who pray in unbelief, will go to someone else to try to get from God what they don't believe He will give them Himself.

There. That.

The rest is just bubble-wrap.
516 posted on 04/21/2015 5:49:48 PM PDT by Resettozero
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