A friend sent me an article from USA Today about the rise of Christian religionists on the playing fields of big league sports teams -- players signaling to God, calling for a touchdown, or raising arms in praise of Him when they make one, and things like that.
It got me thinking. For believers, prayer can be powerful, but I think its power comes in what it does internally to the praying individual. I'm skeptical of prayers that ask God for favors.
It is really highly inconsiderate of competing sports teams to both be praying that God will let them win. I mean, doesn't God have enough to do trying to decide which warring nations to let win, and which babies to let die, and whose crops the rain should fall upon and whose get drought? Now he has to decide who wins football games?
That's too much to expect of an overworked God in this modern world. We need him to attend to more vital things like war, poverty, disease, and starvation.
Ralph
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