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Let me tack on an additional thought. It should be remembered that it matters if the form of the appeal is in accordance with God's nature of love and justice.
The story of Jonah came to mind where a human appeal for the lord to NOT have mercy was denied because it was contrary to God's nature. Other times a Judgement is carried out because something must be fullfilled whateve appeals are made to the contrary, case in point being the death of David's son by Uriah's wife in consequence for David's murder of Uriah.
Nevertheless David prayed on, and I suppose we do also out of hope, for the alternative is to surrender hope and perhaps, surrender forebearance and mercy where God will grant it.
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Brother,
There are several ways that we might rationalize the ways that God deals with the creation, rather than the ways that the creation can and will attempt to understand their God, especially in ways that He is known personally to deal with us.
Now, one possible point of interest here is that we, as uniquely created human beings above and beyond all other creations is that, do we really have a free-will design residing within us, or, because of the overt sin nature in us,or are we just hearing false pings on our radars, or because of what our own senses comunicate to us remembering that God does not possess any of these faulty, or worldly attributes, or shortcomings as we do.
But, this one thing should make sense to us, and that is knowing that God is an all-knowing God and is surprised at nothing that has, or that ever will occurr under the sun, even when it occurrs by God's own hand when it refuses to shine on us and the all of creation, no longer.
And this would be any event, occurrance, or circumstance under the sun.
And again here, no matter what we do is regulated and governed by God's spiritual law directed toward that all of creation which cannot be altered by mankind; no matter what the creation might decide by a process to carry out either for God in ignorance, or likewise against God in ignorance also.
Only the Spirit of God can maintain anything that we might consider to be near perfection in our lives which in part has to do with how it is that we can accurrately deal with Him, because He is perfect and we are not on most all fronts, except that spiritual part of us which is graciously connected to the gracious and wonderful part of Him!
Thanks,
SAE