Chapter 46 – Ask,
Seek, Knock
“Ask,
and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door
will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who
searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there
anyone among you who, if your child asked for bread, would give a stone? Or if
the child asked for a fish, would give a snake? If you, then, who are evil,
know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in
heaven give good things to those who ask him!” Matthew (7:7-11)
Ask,
and you will receive. This is one of the many lessons we learn from Jesus in this
sermon. Want something from God? Pray, ask, and you will receive it. We are
told to pray without ceasing as a way to maintain our relationship with God.
But
praying in this manner isn’t just asking for things and hoping to receive them.
Praying to God is about building up your relationship with God, and also with
yourself. Praying it about learning how to recognize that a relationship with
God means that you can ask to leave your burdens in God’s hands, thus receiving
relief from stress, sadness, and anger. Asking and receiving isn’t always about
material goods. In fact, most of the time, it’s about spiritual and emotional
needs.
Seeking
out a relationship with God means that you’re ready to receive all of what it
means to be in relationship with God – grace, mercy, forgiveness, and, most of
all, unconditional love. Ask, and you will receive all of this and more. Ask
and seek, and you will receive an abundance of love that you’ll hardly know
what to do with it all. Ask and seek, and you will receive the gift of being
able to lay your burdens down, even if only for a while.
Everyone who asks, everyone who seeks, will receive. No if, ands, or buts about it.
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