Asking For What We Need

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you…” – Matthew 7:7 (KJV)

Have you asked for anything recently? If so, what was it? Did you get it? What are you seeking for in this life? What doors are you knocking on and why? Are these doors opening?

The following comes from Tim Sanders at www.sanderssays.typepad.com (August 25, 2006)
Take your life and all the things that you think are important, and put them in one of three categories, represented by three items: glass, metal, and rubber.
Things of rubber, when you drop them, will bounce back. No harm is done when these things get dropped. So for instance, if I miss a Seahawks’ game, my life will bounce along just fine. Missing a game or a season of football will not alter my marriage or my spiritual life. I can take ‘em or leave ‘em.
Things of metal, when dropped, create a lot of noise. But you can recover from the drop. If you miss a meeting at work, you can the get the CliffNotes. If you don’t balance the checkbook and lose track of how much you have in your account, and the bank notifies you of an overdraft—that will create some noise in your life, but you can recover from it.
Things of glass, when dropped, shatter into pieces and will never be the same again. They can be glued back together, but they are altered forever. They may be missing some pieces, and the probably can’t hold water again without leaking. The consequences of this brokenness will forever affect how the glass is used.
You’re the only person who knows what those things are that you can’t afford to drop. More than likely, they have a lot to do with your relationships with spouse, children, family, and friends.

Too often when we ask things of God we are asking for the rubber things or the metal things to work out. We wonder why our prayers are not answered, why the doors we want opened do not open, and maybe it is because we are not asking the right questions. God wants us to be concerned with the glass things, the precious things, the wonderful things, and those things and people that we often take for granted without ever realizing it, generally until it is too late, after we dropped them forever altering our lives. The most important things in life are relationships with others, and with God. If we asked that our relationships get better, we would soon discover we spent more time worrying about the glass things, and then less about the rubber, and soon less about the metal too, and yes… life would be better, the door of what we truly want would be opened, love!

With hope and joy,
Garrett