How slow we all are to learn the lesson that the haughty creature needs
to be brought down to his knees and humbled into the dust. And this is where the very act of prayer is intended to put us. But man (in his usual perversity) turns the footstool into a throne from whence he would fain direct the Almighty as to what He ought to
do! giving the onlooker the impression that if God had half the
compassion that those who 'pray' have, all would quickly be put right!
Such is the arrogance of the old nature even in a child of God.
- A. W. Pink (The Sovereignty of God, Chapter 9: God's Sovereignty and Prayer)
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