Ask and You Shall Receive

We can easily imagine Jesus and the Twelve walking fom village to village in Gallilee knocking on doors as beggars when they needed something to eat.  Perhaps a refusal provoked Jesus to say that knocking on the door of his Father (and ours) would be different.  "Ask and you will receive, seek and your will find; knock and the door will be opened to you."(Lk 11: 9). No normal father would hand his son a snake then he asks for a fish, nor a  scorpion, when he asks for an egg; if that be the case, how much more would our heavenly Father hand his adopted sons and daughters (though baptism) whatever they ask?  Yet, we grow skeptical when what we ask for is not granted all the time.  It is at these moments when trust has to come into play.  God hears every prayer, but in his overall plan, what we ask for might not be the best for us.  God has something better in mind, and when we think back on our own histories of "begging", we will find that to be the case. We are privileged to call God our Father, and in the prayer that Jesus taught us after blessing his holy name, we say, "thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." God's will before ours.  We are not entiltled, though at times it seems God "spoils" us with surprises beyond our expectations, but we are certainly loved, and it is in that love that we find the real answer to our prayer.
Bro. Rene