ASK, SEEK, FIND

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In Christ, Mark

The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

Whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—indeed, if you call out for insight

and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 1:33, 2:1-6

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

These words of Jesus are ones every believer should have written in the hearts and minds:

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:7-8

If we are looking for help from the Lord in any aspect of our life, we must proactively pursue it.

Consider this earthly scenario for a minute to underscore this concept:

You are driving along when all of a sudden your tire goes flat on your vehicle. You pull off the side of the road, get out, and survey the problem.

Yep, that tire is flat and you’re not going anywhere without it being replaced. You check your spare tire and guess what, it’s flat too. It’s been ages since you even looked at it and you thought it was fine but slowly over time, it lost its air.

Now you are in a real fix. You need a new tire and your spare is useless.

So what do you do? Do you sit around and wait for something to happen?

No, you would typically call someone and ask them to come and render assistance. Seeking help, you find it and the door is opened to you getting your car back on the road and you onto your destination.

This approach in principle is what Jesus is getting at. We can be experiencing problems in life that we need help handling but we’ll never move toward starting resolution of those problems without taking action. We need to first pray and ask the Lord for His aid. When we do, we will find Him and He will open the door to assisting us in accordance with His will and way.

In the end, our hope and help will always be found in the Lord.

As we see in our scripture today from Proverbs, the same applies in the matter of pursuing knowledge and wisdom. Look again at the word of God:

Whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.

My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—indeed, if you call out for insight

and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.”

For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

These words from Solomon precede the words of Jesus but perfectly fit the concept espoused by our Savior.

For when we ask the Lord for wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, turning our ears to it and applying our hearts toward comprehending it, when we seek it as we would seek silver or gold or anything else of great worldly value, then the Lord will open up the door of wisdom and give it to us.

This will lead us to a spirit of reverence and rejoicing as we receive and experience the very instruction of the Father, instruction that will lead us to live in safety and ease without fear of harm when we listen to it.

Friends, there is no shortage of situations where we need wisdom and guidance in life. What a peace and reassurance we have in knowing that we can find it in its most perfect sense in the Lord whenever we need it.

All we have to do is ask, seek, and find.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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