Ask

“So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Luke 11:9

After the disciples asked the Lord to teach them to pray, He gave them the example of the Lord’s Prayer. He then asked them to imagine that they went to a friend at midnight to borrow three loaves of bread to feed a friend who arrived from a long journey. The one inside responds, “Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ Jesus assures, “Even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.”

From this passage, we learn that we can keep knocking on our Father’s door, and not give up. “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

We may think, we have been praying and knocking for months now that God save us from this pandemic. We are now in the top 20 countries in the world with the most cases of COVID-19. There are 35,414,071 who have gotten this virus, and 1,043,045 who have died. What is God doing? Is He turning a deaf ear to our cries? But God has not promised that we will have it easy in this world. Jesus Himself said in John 16:33, “I have said these things to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation and trouble and hardship. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” 

The most important thing for God is we will join His family, and get to heaven someday. God gave us a beautiful world and gave us His laws in order to take care of it, but man wanted to do his own thing, and make his own way. Man rejected God’s ways. We chose abortion because we want to have freedom from the responsibility of our actions. We chose to be governed by men with no conscience instead of righteous men. We did not take care of our environment and instead put fake sand to prettify a dirty beach. 

We will find that God has used the mess we have made of things, the destruction we have caused to families, to our church, our country, to bring us closer to Him. He is the grand weaver, and although now, we see an ugly tapestry, one day we will see the beautiful design He has made using the mismatched colors and tangled threads our hands have given Him. 

“Do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” (2 Corinthians 4:16-18)