You never know with Him

I once prayed for a lovely white garment i saw in the window glass. I loved it so much but couldn’t afford it. Apparently a lot of people couldn’t afford it because it was there a long time, just hanging, magnificently and just my exact size. There was nothing i could do except hope and pray i get this dress. I worked hard and prayed, prayed and prayed, all night and day, fasted so many days and at a time i just thought maybe he doesn’t answer prayers anymore. Nothing could be compared to the obsession and love i had for this garment. The most painful fact was that the shop selling this garment was along my way home, in my full glare everyday, yet i was only allowed to look and stare but not even touch not to talk of wear. I came back to town after spending lots of weeks out of home and just as usual passed by the garment shop and to my greatest surprise the white garment was still there but now almost changing to brown. Even the Ram in our farm knows how much i hate a brown garment. I went to the shop owner to ask what happened, he told me the garment was made from a very delicate and sensitive material which accounts for its expensive price and that it goes dark with time either in use or not and either its dry cleaned or not and at the end of the day if you never saw it white you'll believe it was made brown and if you never saw it brown, you will believe it was made black which is its final destination. I thanked the owner and went home. I spent hours of days thanking God for his grace and understanding for i then realized he actually heard all my prayers but just chose to answer it in a way i couldn’t understand because i may not smile or say thank you to no one for giving me a brown garment. Also i think its imperative for me to explicitly show my gratitude to Him for refusing to answer my prayers and for not granting my request because i can’t seem to understand why I’ll be able to afford a more expensive dress which i just got recently and was unable to buy that seemingly white garment for months. Let no wise man cease to pray for he who ceases to pray ceases to prosper. The time, we may not know and the Knowledge, we may not have but one thing i am so certain about is His promise to Answer our prayers for as long as we trust in him alone and increase our charitable acts (good to our fellow man).i once promised and pledged to do these two and i still haven’t changed my mind, all I’m asking for is your grace to do so till the day my heart stops. Even while it seems your prayers are yet to be answered and things are yet to be the way you want them, Never fail to always thank God, the most beneficent, the most merciful and the most wise because you just never know how he answers your prayers and how he does his things....you just never know with Him