Prayer + sitting on your butt = Nil

I didn't get too much done today, and it wasn't even because I finally acquired a Wii this morning. Warren and I went to Bailey's rather than trivia, but that was the lion's share of my social interaction of the day.

I wonder what the active voice correlary to the saying "trust in God, but lock your car" is. It's a very easy thing to denounce hyper-Calvinism in matters of redemption while unknowingly practicing it in other areas of life. It can be as benign as thinking that once we've prayed for something that we should just believe that it will happen, while sitting on you butt and not exercising available means. You can pray for God to help you catch a fish all you want, but if you don't bait the hook, cast it, and keep casting it until you catch a fish, then your prayer isn't going to accomplish much. Leaving off the executing of means and expecting God to answer a prayer is tantamount to putting Him "to the test", as the devil tried to get Christ to do in the desert, and it's just a wrongheaded as it was then. God, give me the will to go with the courage, tact, and the rest.