Nonsense. There is no “Game Over,” unless you make it so.
I did not choose to lose my job.
I did not choose to have evil befall me and be unprotected.
I did not choose to never be able to have a steady employment.
I did not choose this horrific job market.
First of all, you have all the Scriptural warrant in the world for being persistent in your prayer. We just had that reading about the persistance of the widow woman and in getting justice from the unrighteous judge. “Fine, fine, I’ll give her what she wants, even though there’s no graft in it for me. And yeah, I don’t fear man or God. But if this goes on, she’s going to hit me!”
This is about getting justice, not temporal needs.
But let’s say those verses say what they say you say.
Imagine a father who has a son asking him for food. The father demands the kid ask him 500 times before he feeds him.
Or a father that plays “keep away” with the kid by keeping away things the son needs because he didn’t ask enough times.
This is not the actions of a loving father. Thus, I cannot accept your interpretation.
it doesn’t mean that God is going to give in and do whatever we want, or even what we have good human reason to think that we need.
I’m closer to the need than God is. I don’t ask for evil things. I just want to have a decent paying career.
A lot of the saints got “No” to their extremely good and well-meaning requests.
Precisely. God never promised he would provide for our temporal needs. If he does (and he does sometimes to some people) - it is not a guaranteed thing nor an obligation on his part.
But whatever happens, it is reasonable to understand that God knows more about the big picture of our lives than we do, and will help us based on that big picture of what will help us grow.
And if he doesn’t tell us, how are we supposed to know?
And that’s the point of Jesus’ parable about even sinful human fathers not giving their son a poisonous snake if the kid asks for an fish, or a scorpion if he asks for a tasty egg.
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father from Heaven give the good Spirit to those who ask Him?”
Another verse that is misinterpreted.
Look at the end of that: Father from Heaven give the good Spirit to those who ask Him
Pay attention to the red.
This is the gift of the Holy Spirit from the Father.
We get this great gift in the sacraments, all we have to do is ask. This is ONLY about spiritual things, not temporal things.
Job’s questions are not answered except with God’s bigger questions, but things turn out.
God actually talked to Job. Job actually had a personal relationship with God.
Both don’t apply to me. I only have a corporate relationship with God, and God doesn’t talk to me.
It’s not fair to complain about Him not answering our prayers if we don’t answer His.
And what is his prayer? To beg him non-stop for 18-30 years like St. Monica did?
I can’t go 18 years without a job. No. Not acceptable.
