Meditations

Never Stop Knocking Ask and it will be given you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. Luke 11, 9 If all we had to do to obtain worldly riches was ask for them, we would be so eager, untiring and persevering in our asking. If all we had to do to find treasure was dig for it, how much earth would we not move? If all we had to do to enter the king's private council and assume the highest position of honour was knock, such redoubled knocking would be heard. But what do we not do to find blessing and happiness where they cannot be found? How many rebuffs, how many setbacks are we willing to endure for the phantom of worldly glory? How much suffering for vain pleasures of which nothing remains but remorse? The treasures of God's grace are the only true riches, yet they are the only riches we balk at asking for and expecting. However, we must never stop knocking. The promises of Jesus Christ are always faithful. It is we who are unfaithful in asking for them.