Ask-Seek-Knock
God Holds The Answers In His Hands
ASK—SEEK – KNOCK
Oh, do I have a happy thought for you today? Thinking about it makes me happy, so let me share my happiness with you. The idea came to me from God's word, so it is there for each of us.
We have a heavenly Father who knows how to give us, his children, good gifts.
He not only knows how to give good gifts to us, but HE WANTS TO GIVE US GOOD GIFTS. Sometimes, our problem may be that we are afraid of Him, so we hide from Him by not going to Him in prayer.
Sometimes, we may think He doesn't care, so we don't go to Him with our needs. At other times, we may believe that what we want might not be what He wants us to have, so we don't go to Him with our desires. Any of these reactions to misconceptions about God—our Heavenly Father—will hinder our coming to God to ask for our needs and even the desires of our hearts.
The happy thought is that God wants us to need Him.
The content idea is that God wants us to seek Him and His will.
The happy thought is that God knows how to give His children good things - the things He knows we need.
The happy thought is that God wants to provide us with good things. He is the perfect Father who not only knows what is good and wants to give us what is good, but He is the ideal Father who can ideally give what is good.
Yes, it is a happy thought to know that:
God wants us to ask—so He can give.
God wants us to seek—so He can let us find Him.
God wants us to knock—so He can open the door.
Yes, we are happy when we let God know what we need, and God is pleased when He supplies them to the needy.
First draft l0/22/92. Revised 2/5/96, 10/17/2024
Copied to new hard drive 10/26/2018
Larry E. Whittington
Thank You and God bless.
Great observations. It occurs to me that in our immature believer status we may not know what good gifts actually are. To believe the messaging from the world would have us believe that a good gift from God might actually be something or someone that would lead us deeper into sin and depravity. But once we authentically and earnestly begin to seek God - and then understand the value of the eternal over the temporal, we are now able to accept good gifts - because we actually recognize that is what they are. Thanks Larry!