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Understanding the True Meaning of ‘Ask, Seek, Knock’
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One of the wonderful characteristics of our Christian faith is the kind of relationship that we have with God and how we can talk to him. We see part of that as we meditate on Matthew chapter seven, verse seven, and this is Jesus speaking. Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you.
This, of course, is a verse that’s often abused to try and promote a view that says that we get whatever we want when we talk to God, when we ask in the right way, when we have the right kind of faith. Well, the more we read the Bible, and the deeper our relationship with God becomes, the more we understand that he’s our God, our King, and our Father.
And as a father, he wants us to have a meaningful relationship with him. One where we communicate. We don’t have to wait until we go to church so that a priest, a formal, ordained minister, can do that for us. No, we have a direct line to our Heavenly Father ourselves, and Jesus encourages us to speak to God.
He says, ask so that you can receive, look so that you can find, knock, so that doors will open. If we don’t ask. If we don’t seek, if we don’t knock, we can’t expect to receive, find or see open doors.
But of course, God isn’t going to give us everything we ask for. Just like if I’d asked my dad for a tank when I was five he wouldn’t have gone out and got me one.
And God isn’t going to give us everything we ask for because he’s our extremely wise, supremely wise Father. And he knows what’s best for us. And he knows what fits in with his plan.
If we are seeking his purposes, then we will find his purposes. If we knock on the door of scripture, scripture will be opened to us. It will be revealed to us. The Holy Spirit will help us to understand it.
Take every opportunity my friends: ask, seek and knock throughout the day You will find, and doors will open.
