God does not hear the prayers of the proud. He hears the sound they make, but He doesn't receive them or act in gracious response to them. He hears the prayers of people broken by their sins and situations, people who humbly send out their plea for help to the only God Who can rescue. He knows who is asking out of circumstance and who is asking out of the center of their person. Those who ask out of circumstance cry for help only to forget God the moment deliverance comes. Those who ask out of their souls fulfill their vows and offer sacrifices in response to their deliverance. Jesus saved a people out of Egypt by delivering them through dry land where a sea once was, but only some of those saved people offered the right sacrifice of surrendering their center to Him alone.
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