A CALVINIST PRAYER

Of all the justifications Calvinists have to make to fit their ideology into general Christian practice, the two topics which they tie themselves into knots over are prayer and evangelism.

If God has predetermined every last human desire, every historical event, big and small, and the position of every mote of dust in the vast universe, then why pray?

If God has a set of humans He has elected to salvation from before the foundations of the world and the current crop alive on the planet today are simply waiting for God's irresistible grace to be dropped on them and their hearts reborn, it seems like hearing the gospel is sort of an afterthought.

Heck, in a way, the life and death and resurrection of the Son of God is simply a foregone means to the ends of what God decided before creating this world. Thus, it's God's decision - the electing - that is the good news even more so than anything that Christ accomplished because the electing was primary. 

Anyway, Calvinism in general is impossible to live out consistently and that is never more obvious than when it comes to prayer and evangelism.

I came across this "Calvinist Prayer" online and thought it drives this point home.

It seems to me that attempting to live out consistent Calvinism would be like trying to make sense of a time-travel movie. It's never going to make sense because it simply isn't reality.