one step at a time

Seek, and ye shall find

-         Luke 11

We had our Bible study last night and we tackled about The Next Best Thing to Do by Oswald Chambers. I learned a lot from it so I thought it would be great to share it here…

We’re all familiar of the verse above, right?!... seek and you shall find, ask and it will be given to you…phrases we commonly hear and read, encouraging us to keep our faith and confidence because God will provide what our heart desires. We make a lot of requests to God; sometimes 80% of our prayer is all about asking Him for something. However not at all times (we think) our prayers are answered, sometimes we even feel that God failed us... that maybe he doesn’t hear us anymore but that is not the case. He loves us so much that like a parent, we experience tough love from Him because He knows what’s best for us.

“ye ask, & received not, because ye ask amiss”

- Sometimes we don’t get what we prayed for because we ask for something wrong. What happens is that sometimes we ask for things from life instead of from God. We keep on asking… that we don’t notice we’re already being indulgent, selfish and we desire for things of this world instead of Him. We long for self realization and the more we satisfy ourselves, we seek less of Him. God is the greatest giver but He is also very careful in spoiling us with his blessings because He knows what’s best for us!

“seek, and ye shall find”

- Maybe merely asking Him is not enough. Maybe it’s time that we draw more closely to Him to hear Him more. Maybe it’s about time to look for Him, to never stop looking until we find Him. Maybe it’s about time that we desire to be with Him not because we just need to but because we want to. Even God needs our “paglalambing”. He wants us to thirst for Him, to continue thirsting for Him... He wants us to build our faith not on experience but by our desire to want more of Him. Anyway, having an intimate relationship with Him is what’s best for us! 

“knock and it shall be opened unto you”

- Knocking His door is probably the most humbling experience that we could ever have. We asked and he did not answered, we looked for Him but we couldn’t find Him instead what we stumbled upon is a closed door. A closed door that is telling we should put everything down and knock so hard so the door will be opened to us. It’s about time we should look into ourselves; purify our heart for we could be carrying a baggage that slows us down in developing our relationship with God. God wants us to knock so hard because he wanted to see how we long for Him, how we miss Him…He wants us to do this because He wants more of us and He wanted to see how far we would go just to be with Him. Anyway, life is not just about living in this world, it’s living for God! Right!?!