My response to Who Hears #PrayersForOklahoma?
True, prayer is often used as a well-meaning expression to show sympathy, care, and helplessness. However, for those who would argue that everyone should "actually do something", I think there are more than a few believers throughout history who could prove that prayer is the most powerful thing you can do. Yes, "prayer" real prayer is much more than a well-wish comment-- it is authentic communication with God. I'm fairly certain Christians such as Corrie Ten Boom, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa were most likely moved to do amazing things in the Lord's name for Jews hiding from Nazis, for Civil Rights, and for the diseased in India due to a believer's natural first step-- prayer.
I don't fully know why God allows terrible things to happen, except that it seems to go hand in hand with a world that is not perfect and can't be perfect when free will is given to people.
What I do know is this:
1.) There is a whole lot of evidence that we as human beings are not very wise, yet we all like to think we are wiser than God or any idea of Him. Psalms 14:1 says "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God." There are people who know they are foolish, and search for wisdom from God, and there are people who look at people of faith, call them foolish, and without knowing, seem to believe they are gods.
2.) God is bigger than any tornado.
#PrayersforOklahoma. Truly.
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