Monday, April 24, 2006

April 24

Ask! Seek! Knock!

… listen to me. Tune your ears to wisdom … cry out for insight … Search for them as … hidden treasure then you will understand … For the Lord grants wisdom! Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will know how to find the right course of action every time.


Proverbs 3:1-9 (NLT)

Listen to me! You can pray for anything and if you believe, you will have it.

Mark 11:24 (NLT)

If you need wisdom—if you want to know what God wants you to do—ask him, and he will gladly tell you.

James 1:5 (NLT)


We make many mistakes in life, don’t we? We flounder with hard circumstances and struggle with awkward situations, we wrestle with the aftermath of too many bad decisions, but the truth is, it doesn’t have to be like this. There is a better response, a wiser solution than what we concoct.

God, you know, has all the answers, and guess what? He wants to help us. Really. Listen to Jesus’ words. Doesn’t He tell us to ask, to seek, to knock? Then why don’t we? Is it pride … or ignorance … or just a lack of faith?

Listen to the word, my friend. Believe God hears you … and ask!

Father, give us Your insight, lead us in Your way. Help us to do what is right. In Jesus’ name and for the cause of Christ, Amen.