Prayer, The Golden Rule, and the Narrow Way

As children we learn that if we want something we need to ask for it, if we're not sure where something is we look for it, and if we're standing outside of somebody's door we knock. In all of those things we expect something very specific: when we ask, we prepare to receive, if we search we anticipate finding what we're looking for, and if we knock we expect the person inside will open the door. These are all very obvious things in our daily lives, but have you applied this same logic in relating to God? Jesus did. He said, "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." (Matthew 7:7)