7:6
This is a difficult verse.Dogs is a term that Jews sometimes used to refer to Gentiles, and pigs were unclean animals. Perhaps Jesus is saying be careful about whom we share spiritual truths with, for they will not understand and it will not produce a good reaction. If we look at it in the immediate context then perhaps it is a warning that just telling people what is wrong with them will do no good.
7:7
The Christian life is not one of sitting around passively. Nor is it one of relying on some priest, guru, prophet or preacher to do all the thinking for us! We should actively ask, seek and knock. We pursue God, as He pursues us. Sometimes asking is presented as a kind of second rate type of prayer. This is a deeply unbiblical view. Scripture is clear, Jesus is clear, God wants us to ask of Him. Now He may well give us something very different, or in a very different way, than we envisaged. But our Father delights when we ask of Him. And we are to seek. We are to seek answers, to seek to understand, to seek His will. The process of seeking is important in itself. Again, we may find something very different from what we expected, but let us seek. And we are to knock. God wants us to try things out, to see if there is a way through this door. No passivity!
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