Everyone's wishes can come true? [人人期望可達到?]

Yesterday, I read a book for my devotion [n. 靈修] and I found something meaningful to share with you. The writer says there are three kinds of wishes.

- wishes that you can actualize [v. 實現] only with your efforts [n. 努力]
- wishes that you can actualize only with your prayers [n. 祈禱,禱告]
- wishes that you can actualize only with your efforts and your prayers together

The above ideas can help us to know when we should pray for our wishes. For the first kind, we don’t need to pray, or it is even a bit stupid of us to pray. Examples are "I hope I can read 5 pages of this book today" and "I hope I can have a glass of water later". We can simply and successfully do these with our efforts, only if we really make efforts.

For the second kind, we cannot do anything significant [adj. 有效的] to make those things happen, except by praying to our God. Examples are “I hope that the next president of USA can be a good one” and “I hope that it will not be so hot tomorrow”. Obviously [adv. 明顯地], only God but not us can affect the outcomes [n. 結果].

Most of our daily wishes belong to the last kind. Both God and we can affect the outcomes. Examples are “I want to get 90 marks in the coming test” or “I hope I can have a girlfriend/ a boyfriend”. On the one hand, we cannot just pray to God and then do nothing and wait for the desirable things to happen. On the other hand, we are not sure that our wishes can come true only with our efforts - the wishes can be against God’s will [n. 意願] and thus can fail. The right approach is to try our best, and then pray to God, hoping that He will give the best to us. And we should remember - the best things to us in God’s opinion can be different from those in our opinions.

Wish you like my sharing.