Matthew 7:8-10 - Everyone who asks receives

7:8

So we are to ask, seek and knock. We will receive, find and doors will be opened. This will not be a “name it and claim it” type response, but a relationship and an adventure with God. We learn through an active relationship with God. And we pursue God prepared, even expecting, to be corrected and changed by God. Because we need correcting and changing. But we do not sit still.

7:9,10

So these two verses comes straight after Jesus urging us to ask, seek and knock. We might fear “what will we get?” “what will we find?”, “where will the open door lead to?”. But we have no need to fear, and Jesus talks about fathers and sons. A father is not going to give his son something harmful. We tend to look at life as though we are here on our own, subject to many dangers. I write this while we are in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis, and of course we are subject to dangers, but we are not on our own. The truth is that we live this life as children of our Father in Heaven, our good Father. Jesus is the Son of God, He showed us how to live life in the midst of trouble as the Son of God, in relationship with His Father. We need to learn to live life in relationship with our Father.