Sometimes, when we don't know what to pray for someone, we just say 'God bless ___.' It kind of feels like a cop-out, but we don't know what else to say, and that sounds like a nice thing to pray for someone, so that's what we do.
How on earth can we think of that as a cop-out prayer? Is there anything more amazing that we could ask for someone? Blessings from God. Blessings from the Creator and Lord of the universe. Blessings from the King of kings. Blessings from the One who upholds the earth by His mighty Power.
Wow. What more could anyone ask for? What more could we ask for someone? If you pray for me and that's all you say, I know I'll be eternally grateful!
And so I pray God's blessing on you. Whatever that may be, whatever that may look like, I pray it for you. God is good.
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If that's what we mean, then it's a beautiful prayer. You're absolutely right - what more could we pray for someone?
I think the reason it's referred to as a 'cop-out' prayer is because people say it when they don't want to think of anything else to say.
Hey - where did the wv go?
wv went away since it wasn't working anyway.
(i find it humorous that i wrote this post as you wrote your thing saying that 'bless so-and-so' is a cop-out. i'd been meaning to post this for days.)
there are so many things that Christians say without thinking, they're just such a part of our vocabulary. this is one of them. it's sad, really.
Oh, ok, honestly, I thought it was related to my post. John White says to pray Ephesians instead of "God bless so-and-so"
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