“For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened…If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” - Matthew 7:8, 11 (ESV)
Our verse and promise today comes from the Sermon on the Mount as it is commonly called. It could be the first major recorded discourse Jesus gave about living in the Kingdom of Heaven. Facing needs in our lives is to be expected. Our resources run out and need replenishing. This is true whether physical, spiritual or material resources. The promise in verse 8 give us encouragement to know that God provides for those who ask, seek, and knock for resources. Even in extreme cases as Jesus expounds on these promises with examples from every day life. How do we treat our neighbor, our son or daughter when they are in need? We follow God’s example and we give those in need, especially those we love and are related to, an abundant supply of what they ask for. So, certainly God will do that for us. We know that because we who have shortcomings in character, are selfish and greedy yet still provide for our own. God who's love for us is infinite will most certainly do that as well and Jesus is who we have learned from on how He respond to our needs.
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