Ask, Seek, Knock…

Ask, Seek, Knock…

These three words mean so much to the Christian faith and believers around the world. Small, one syllable words that carry the weight of mountains.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. ~Matthew 7:7-12

Nowhere does Jesus tell us we can only do this once. Nowhere does Jesus define these words or pin them down into a narrow channel. Nowhere does Jesus say there would be trouble for anyone following His Truth.

No, quiet the opposite. Jesus simply explains who we should be in His eyes. If a person is capable of doing evil and still treat his child with adoration, what will happen if we go to Our Father through Jesus Christ? That’s very simple, very clear and absolutely definitive. Why would we not take Him at His own Word?

If we ask Our Father for forgiveness of our sins – our separation from Him – would He turn away from us? What if were the 9,307,246 time? What if we ask for mercy, grace for others? What if we confess our sins – our separation from God, in whatever form it takes – what if we did this with God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit present with one or two gathered in His name? What then? What if were our 637 time?

Isn’t this where asking, seeking and knocking begin? How can we go to Our Father in our filthy rags of sin without first asking, seeking and knocking upon the door of salvation and redemption? Is that how it works? Can we continue to live our lives in sin, our back turned to God full time, and ask for Him to strengthen us in the face of a raging storm as we commit sins ini a deliberate fashion?

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. ~Hebrews 10:26–27

All Christians know that Christ paid a high price to redeem us from the power of sin. Nothing less than His death and suffering under the wrath of God could have secured our eternal salvation. Source

Either the Gospel is divine inspiration, the Word of God teaching us how to live and how to be a reflection of Him, or it’s nothing more than a historical account of events.