because if God didn't want me confused I would have the understanding I prayed for, pure and simple.
I prayed for understanding and enlightenment to know and do God's will. God left me confused and refused to answer my prayer because he clearly wanted me confused.
No... I don't think that makes any sense. That would be like me saying "I asked the teacher to explain Algebra and he left me confused. And since he left me confused, it must be because he wants me confused" and all the while the rest of the class went out understanding.
I think the proper perspective would be like the Eunuch:
Acts 6:
27 So he started out, and he met the treasurer of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under the Kandake, the queen of Ethiopia. The eunuch had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
28 and he was now returning. Seated in his carriage, he was reading aloud from the book of the prophet Isaiah.
29 The Holy Spirit said to Philip, “Go over and walk along beside the carriage.”
30 Philip ran over and heard the man reading from the prophet Isaiah. Philip asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
31 The man replied, “How can I, unless someone instructs me?” And he urged Philip to come up into the carriage and sit with him.
32 The passage of Scripture he had been reading was this: “He was led like a sheep to the slaughter. And as a lamb is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth.
33 He was humiliated and received no justice. Who can speak of his descendants? For his life was taken from the earth.”
34The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, was the prophet talking about himself or someone else?”
35 So beginning with this same Scripture, Philip told him the Good News about Jesus.
The Eunuch was confused about understanding and so the Holy Spirit sent a man to explain it to him. When Phillip was finished, he wasn't confused anymore. God will always help people understand but this isn't a matrix movie download.
What are you confused about?
