“Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door is opened. Who among you will give your children a stone when they ask for bread? Or give them a snake when they ask for fish? If you who are evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. (Matthew 7:7-11, CEB)
Have you ever asked for something and not gotten it?
Have you ever looked for something and not found it?
Have you ever knocked on a door and it wasn’t opened?
I looked for a contact once in a cabin we were visiting. My daughter lost her contact and we pay about $25 a contact for special ordered lenses for her and this is the second one she lost in about 3 weeks. she was devastated and I wanted to help and she thought she dropped it in the sink. So I was working on getting the stopper out of the sink and it wasn’t working and in the process of looking for this contact and taking the plumbing apart on the sin, I actually removed the drain pipe from the bathroom sink. Remember we do not live here and we were merely visiting. I had no understanding or putty to put this sink back together. So I had to tell the person who takes care of the place that I took apart the sink in the bathroom. I actually found the contact all dried up on the floor in the hall a few days later.
Sometimes we ask and we don’t get, and sometimes we look and we don’t find and knocking doesn’t get it opened. And that doesn’t mean our faith isn’t enough or God doesn’t love us.
This verse is used for a cosmic vending machine mentality of God and that God will give us everything we ask for, seek, and want. And that is not what it means.
God gives us what we need. If we need it and ask it will come. If we need it and seek it will come. If we knock and need to get in it will open.
God is not a vending machine for our desires.
Know you are loved and when it seems like God is absent, God is not. God loves you.
Loving People. Loving God.
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