Most things tend to work both ways. If you expect a camera to take photographs you have to supply the batteries and look after it to insure its not broken. No Ipod can provide musical comfort if its not charged. You have to be ready to put work in to get the reward out of it. If you want a high grade then you have to revise.
This is the same with our relationship with God. We can't expect God to guide us if we aren't listening and when we cry out asking why we can't see him in our lives, we need realise - maybe its because were not offering him the oppurtunity. We push God away and from personal experiences I know there are plenty of times when I don't want to listen. Attitudes become similar to the 'i know better approach' even though we really don't.
If we are praying for something, we have to spend just as much time listening. Would you be a good friend if all you did was talk? you need to hear the advice. See, Jesus wants to be a friend to you. To listen to all your struggles, to pick you up when you fall and to provide a shelter when things just get too much. Its a relationship - not a religion.
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