Our gospel
passage today gives us a forthright command: ask, that you might receive; seek, that you might
find; knock so that the door can be opened up to you. Even though God certainly
knows all of our needs before we ask him, he nevertheless wants us to use the
free will that he has given us to make an act of faith and trust in him by
asking, seeking and knocking: for these are the very things that Adam and Eve
refused to do after they had eaten from the apple given by the serpent. They
hid, and did not ask, they did not seek, they did not knock: and their
relationship with God was mortally wounded.
And so, then disciplined petitioning will get results: petitions not for
just anything at all, not for wealth and power – but petitions for what God
already wants us to have will bring forth abundant results. “How much more will
the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
May we do thusly today, and receive the answer to all our prayers!
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
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