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Wilkinson should say more on how to distinguish between God's will and our own desires that we too easy mistake for God's. There is much ambiguity in this book as one passes from a request for a blessing that is left up to God to a specific request that the individual decides on some basis or other must be God's will (like Trinidad, a DC-10, or the delay of a flight that will inconvenience hundreds of other people). It may be rather from the magical implication of his name that he asks deliverance, something in which moderns would put little stock. And since it would have been many centuries after Jabez that the concept of an evil Satan developed, that can hardly be the evil he asks to be delivered from here, although it is what Wilkinson seems to think is the entire focus of this last request.
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The hand of God that Jabez sought was more likely to have been as a military power with which to overthrow and kill his neighbor. His expansion of territory is literally a land grab at the expense of his neighbor's lives, which he felt he was taking with the approval of God, something so close to today's West Bank settlements that it ought to cause us some ambivalence to use this prayer at all. Since Jabez lived in a time prior to prophetic notions of social justice or the concept of an afterlife, his idea of blessing is more materialistic than any gospel or post-gospel understanding. All of these are good things and the prayer of Jabez is one way of packaging them.Įxcept that Jabez may have meant something else. We should live in dependence on God and ask for deliverance from personal harm and from hurting others. We might very well ask for the gift of being called to do more for God than we are doing, and to be more ambitious in trying to serve.
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And there may be some things that God is waiting for us to ask for before granting. It's not selfish to pray for God's blessings for oneself, especially when you leave the nature of the blessing up to God. Urn:oclc:47941780 Republisher_date 20120301033311 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120229012957 Scanner this best selling book Wilkinson urges some important spiritual lessons.
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