Luke
11
9 "And
so I (Jesus)tell you,
keep
on asking,
and
you will receive what you ask for.
Keep
on seeking,
and
you will find.
Keep
on knocking,
and
the door will be opened to you.
10 For
everyone who asks,
receives.
Everyone
who seeks,
finds.
And
to everyone who knocks,
the
door will be opened.
11 "You
fathers—if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake
instead?
12 Or
if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion?
Of
course not!
13 So
if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children,
how
much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who
ask him."
It
was probably a year ago I was reading this passage when 2 words
struck me as 2 important ones...
“keep
on”
God
seemed to whisper to me to “keep on” - don't give up.
Jesus
basically reminds us to keep moving forward, to not give up, for what
we are moving toward will finally come to us.
How
does that apply to us?
Each
of us is moving toward something God has for us. Sometimes we don't
know what that is, sometimes we do.
Jesus
would seem to tell us here to keep moving forward with Him (& not
look backwards). The destination may not be clear, the purpose may
escape us, how we'll get there may not be evident.
But
one thing is clear – Jesus will be with us as we “keep on”.
Is
that interpretation of those few verses a bit of a stretch?
I
hope not. It has helped me through this particular season.
Many
of us may have a hard time connect with the concept of God as Father
because our experience with our earthly fathers was not what it
should be.
Louie
Giglio preached a 3 part sermon series about God as a perfect father.
One
of the many power statements he made was to those who don't have good
father models.
Louie
suggests that we think about what we would consider a perfect father
to be like.
And
then realize that God, who wants us to think of Him as our Father, is
INFINITELY more a perfect Father than we can consider or conceive.
That
was a REAL “ah ha” moment for me – maybe you too?
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