For everyone who asks, receives.
Without
qualification, our Lord is saying, whoever asks will receive.
But it seems that
our every day experience tells us otherwise. Who is there who has
ever lived who has not received something he has prayed for?
(Everyone prays.
Everyone makes requests to God. Do I know this for certain? I know
myself. As a person, I know that in my desperation I always pray. Who
is there among humanity who at one time is not so desperate that he
does not pray? “There are no athiests in foxholes.” is, I
believe, a true proverb.)
So where does our
Lord's truth intersect with the truth of our experience?
A clue is in the
next verse, “for which one of you, having a son...”
The One to Whom we
pray is not a mindless computer. The One to Whom we ask is the
Heavenly Father who gives precisely what is good and kind for us.
When we ask, He gives us the best thing.
Pity poor Solomon
who got everything on this earth he could imagine to want. His assessment of life? “Vanity of vanities all is vanity."
May we trust our Heavenly Father that as we ask of Him, He will give us all good things.
May we trust our Heavenly Father that as we ask of Him, He will give us all good things.
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