Was listening to podcast again at the gym, while working out. I like it because it allows my mind to be empty and really think and hear thoughts. It also allows me to not focus on the heart beating or sore muscles.
Jesus said “Seek, and you’ll find. Ask, and it’ll be given. Knock, and the door will be open unto you”. It’s a very popular verse. But today, it spoke to me differently. All three of these, have the ‘action’ and ‘reaction’. In the bible, throughout, one of the common theme is you reap what you sow. Plant the seed, and then gather the harvest. One of the old Chinese proverbs that I grew up with was “If you sow bean seed, you’ll get beans. If you sow fruit seed, you’ll get fruit”.
Though doesn’t it seem that if you go by the ‘you get what you put into’, then where is God in all this? Shouldn’t Christians trust the Lord will provide?
I’ve struggled with that for a while in the past.
I don’t think being a Christian means you can be a couch potato and things will fall onto your lap by simply praying. (I didn’t say not to pray) Jesus talked about stewardship of everything that we were entrusted with – gifts, talents, finances, job, children, family, health etc.
I believe it is that being a Christian, we can Knock, Ask and Seek with faith and confidence that God is with us, He is for us and that He will provide. We don’t knock timidly, or not knock at all, but we knock firmly. Imagine someone is by the door, and doesn’t knock – how will I know to open the door? The confidence doesn’t come from our own understanding of our skills or our track record, but rather comes from God.
Well, I haven’t always been firmly grounded to the things I wrote in the above paragraph. I waver and I become timid in the presence of giants. Though I know that God doesn’t condemn me.
I refuse to let my past victories to be my only victories or my last victories. The best is yet to come. In the current economical situation, God is still here. Seattlelites know it well that, it’s cloudy in the northwest 6 months in a year, but the Sun is always there.
How many times were we the one prevented ourselves from reaching the best God has planned for us?
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