Ask, Seek, and Knock,

4. August 2008 by Bernice Davis.

Good Morning: 

Welcome back from the weekend.     

It’s one of those weeks where I just want to increase my praise to God.  God is soooooooo wonderful.  Our God really is amazing.    I had a wonderful weekend; I didn’t do anything special except attend church and worship before our God and fellowship with the saints.  It was really special.  I love Sundays; they are my absolute favorite day of the week.   

When I read our morning devotional for the day, I thought how appropriate.  I was just talking to a friend this morning about how sometimes we make things so complicated as Christians. Too often we try to rationalize and figure things out when we should just take God at his word.  If God said it, He will bring it to pass, if He spoke it, He will make it good.   

I remember the early days of my salvation when it seemed like I could just believe God for anything.  I would speak it, decree it, stand on it, rebuke doubt, and just believe.  Life and circumstances have a way of beating you down sometimes to where the fight that you had early in the “game” you begin to loose it and just start accepting things.    But GOD!!!!!!!!!!!  Ohhhhhh!!!!!!!!!  God has way of reviving you and encouraging you and strengthening you and when you return back to the fight, you’re stronger than ever and more determined than before.   So with all that in mind our text for today is:  Matthew 7:7-12

7“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 ”Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.   

Jesus is telling us that this is the conclusion of the matter;  If you can’t figure all this out then just do unto others as you would have them do to you and God will take care of the rest.   Just treat people right as you want to be treated right and remember that we are the children of God and we have the ability to ask our Father and he will not deny us.    For those of you that have been following this series, you must remember that context drives meaning.  God is not to be treated like a Jeanie in a bottle that you summon when you need something.  The text is inside of the Sermon on the Mount and Jesus has constantly been teaching his followers and his audience that relationship with God is primary and foremost.    

It is so important to work on our relationship with God.  What other relationship or thing is more important than that, yet we daily make choices that have nothing to do with working on our relationship with God nor growing in His Word.  Think about how powerful it is to have access to the God that has ultimate and all power; the creator of the universe.  THE BOSS!!!!!!!!!     

God Bless!!!! 

Don’t forget to pray and read God’s word daily. 

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