PT-1 "God's Promise to His Children Demands It" (Matt. &:7-8)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/23/2021 11:27 AM

 

My Worship Time                              Focus: PT-1 “God’s Promise to His Children Demands It”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matthew 7:7-8

 

            Message of the verses:  “7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”

 

            We are beginning to look at the first reason for obeying the command to love others as ourselves.  Once again I want to remind you that The Sermon on the Mount talks about kingdom living, and all true believers are in God’s kingdom as our King now reigns from heaven and after the tribulation period is over He will rule for 1000 years from David’s throne in Jerusalem.

 

            We see in these two verses a promise that we can feel free to fully love others and totally sacrifice for others, and the reason is because our heavenly Father sets the example in His generosity to us and He also promises that we have access to His eternal and His unlimited treasure to meet our own needs as well as theirs.  As verse twelve says, which The Golden Rule is, we can do for others what we would want done for ourselves without any fear of depleting the divine resources and having nothing left, for God’s supplies to us are limitless.

 

            John MacArthur writes “Verses 7-11 make a perfect bridge between the negative teaching about a critical spirit and the positive teaching of the golden rule.  Even when we have been cleansed of our own sin—had the ‘log’ removed from our eye—we need divine wisdom to know how to help a brother remove the ‘speck’ from his eye (v. 5).  And without God’s help we cannot be sure of who are ‘dogs’ or ‘swine’—who are the false prophets and apostates to whom we should not offer the holy and precious things of God’s Word (v. 6).  These considerations drive us to call on the Lord.”

 

            One of the many things that we should ask, seek, and knock, God’s wisdom is among our greatest needs.  We cannot be able to discern and discriminating without divine counsel that can only come from our heavenly Father, and so the primary means for achieving this great wisdom is petitioning prayer.  We can see this from James 1:5, a verse that we will conclude this short SD with.  “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.”

 

1/23/2021 11:45 AM