THE REASON FOR "ASK, SEEK, KNOCK"
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
There is a reason why God wants for us to ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK when it comes to our relationship with Him. It tells God that we are interested in what we have heard about the Gospel, and we want more information. Once we have opened that door to a relationship with God we find most often that between the two parties involved ( Us and God) we are always the most likely to fail in holding up our end of any bargain we may strike with Him.
The problem for God isn't in the fact that we fail so much at keeping our word to Him; because I believe that failure in our current physical condition is almost always a possibility, but then failure can be overcome through the faith that we put into God's word and promises to us. That is one of the major lessons that we should take away from the life of Jesus Christ our Lord. While it is very true that we are given questions that need to be answered in this life, and we have goals to reach for...I also believe that we are not condemned or saved through the successes we have spiritually, but from our openness and growth to God's loving Spirit within us. It all becomes a matter of the heart. Our failure or our success is the way that we are judged by other men around us, but not by God because He reads the heart. Jesus read the heart of the thief who hang on the cross right beside Him, and Jesus still reads the hearts of those whom He comes into contact with.
Those who ask, seek, or knock are looking for important answers for their lives...some of those things can be very deep indeed, but that does not mean they have to be that deep. Some people do not have the strength or the gift given to answer the real hard things; and there are some who can't even ask the questions about their lives that they so desperately need answered to correct their life's problems, and that is why God deals with the heart...the heart has both the questions and the truth of emotion within to deal with the answer without us having to say anything at all. I believe that is the reason we get some of the answers we do to the prayers we pray. God already is ahead of the game in reading our hearts even when we might answer some things very different from what God see as already being there. How long has it been since you have answered some of these spiritual questions truthfully in your heart? For some of us that answer may be pretty hard to accept. In particular with the Tribulation almost here those things that we have held onto about perhaps never having to give a final account for why we believe and in what we actually believe concerning God may become more important than ever before. This coming week I have some things for you to think about that may be hard to deal with alone...perhaps we should go to Jesus with an open heart to seek and answer? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
There is a reason why God wants for us to ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK when it comes to our relationship with Him. It tells God that we are interested in what we have heard about the Gospel, and we want more information. Once we have opened that door to a relationship with God we find most often that between the two parties involved ( Us and God) we are always the most likely to fail in holding up our end of any bargain we may strike with Him.
The problem for God isn't in the fact that we fail so much at keeping our word to Him; because I believe that failure in our current physical condition is almost always a possibility, but then failure can be overcome through the faith that we put into God's word and promises to us. That is one of the major lessons that we should take away from the life of Jesus Christ our Lord. While it is very true that we are given questions that need to be answered in this life, and we have goals to reach for...I also believe that we are not condemned or saved through the successes we have spiritually, but from our openness and growth to God's loving Spirit within us. It all becomes a matter of the heart. Our failure or our success is the way that we are judged by other men around us, but not by God because He reads the heart. Jesus read the heart of the thief who hang on the cross right beside Him, and Jesus still reads the hearts of those whom He comes into contact with.
Those who ask, seek, or knock are looking for important answers for their lives...some of those things can be very deep indeed, but that does not mean they have to be that deep. Some people do not have the strength or the gift given to answer the real hard things; and there are some who can't even ask the questions about their lives that they so desperately need answered to correct their life's problems, and that is why God deals with the heart...the heart has both the questions and the truth of emotion within to deal with the answer without us having to say anything at all. I believe that is the reason we get some of the answers we do to the prayers we pray. God already is ahead of the game in reading our hearts even when we might answer some things very different from what God see as already being there. How long has it been since you have answered some of these spiritual questions truthfully in your heart? For some of us that answer may be pretty hard to accept. In particular with the Tribulation almost here those things that we have held onto about perhaps never having to give a final account for why we believe and in what we actually believe concerning God may become more important than ever before. This coming week I have some things for you to think about that may be hard to deal with alone...perhaps we should go to Jesus with an open heart to seek and answer? May you richly bless God through your life in Him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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