Ask, Seek, Knock

Ask, Seek, Knock Matthew chapter 7:7-11Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock, and it will be open to you for everyone who asks, receives, and the one who seeks finds and to the one who knocks it will be open. Or which one of you, if his Son asks him for bread, will give him a stone. Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a. If you then who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask of him.The new year is a gift. What are you asking for this year? What are you seeking? What door are you looking for? These questions are the desired line paths that lead to your deep and most present longings. Jesus asks us to ask to reveal our lack in his abundance. He reveals our seeking as a prone to wander and invites us as the good shepherd to pick us up and put us around his shoulders to rest in green pastures.Our abrupt, anxious, incessant knocking uncovers the joy of the Father because though there are many entrances to the Father's house. May it be the long road of the prodigal or the short walk of the moralistic older brother, there was only one way, and there was only one door to the Father's heart.His Son has made the greatest truth true that life without his presence is no life, and life with his presence is the only life.However, today the first day of the year, he asks of you; he is seeking for you. He stands at the door and knocks at your heart. His asking will be an intimate invitation. His seeking will be for the gentle and the lonely. His knocking will sound like the heartbeat that he gave you that every day is a given reminder that he is ready to do something in and through you.God is not looking to bargain with you this year. He wants to live out his mission in your life. He wants you to put on the skin of Jesus. And serve love and be his hands and feet for your friend, enemy, husband, wife, children, or coworker.You ask, seek, and knock to enter into the Kingdom this year. And the abundant life will ask and seek and knock of your one life.Happy New Year✨