''I ask a very intriguing question that has bugged me. What does it mean to put God to a test when we pray for God to act? Isn't there a thin line here?" -- Adrian

Praying for God to act isn't necessarily putting God to the test. "Test," in this sense, is more like testing God's patience. There is a way children can ask their father for something without testing him, and somewhere there is another, more negative and faithless way, which has crossed that thin line.

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