Keep Asking

DEVOTION 1 JOHN KEEP ASKING 1 John 5:13-15 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. 14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. 15 And if we know that he hears us — whatever we ask — we know that we have what we asked of him. NIV So what is so difficult about this? Simply ask and receive right? Well ask according to will and receive, right? Actually ask for whatever we want, as long as it is according to his will, and receive, right? So how hard can that be? Seems pretty simply doesn’t it? So why don’t we ask for more things? Why do we live without asking? Is it because we are not sure what we want is within his will? Or maybe we want stuff that is not within his will and so why bother asking. We know he said that he would supply all our needs according to his riches in Glory, but then needs may be different than wants. But if we are believers and followers of Christ should not our wants be to bring Glory and Honor to God? Could there be a big difference between our needs and our wants? Shouldn’t our needs be our wants? Maybe the trouble all starts when we get all catch up in wanting all the stuff of the world, when we get distracted from his will and pay attention to our own will instead. I know from personal experience that he has given me way more than enough of this world’s goods than I could ever deserve. If we are believers we need to remain focused on his will, doing that which he has called us to do. If we really what to get what we ask for, we need to know what his will is. The way to know his will is to understand his Word and to listen to the Spirit. True, there are other voices that speak to our mind. Voices from the evil side, the dark side, our own voice, but there is the still small voice of God who continues to talk and walk with us in the cool of the day, so to speak. There is just so much within the will of God that we need, but do we ask? Maybe we don’t have the confidence in him that we should. Maybe we have asked, thinking what we asked for was according to his will, and did not receive so we have given up asking. But was it according to his will? Again, we need to make sure it is according to his will and who better to ask if it is or not than God. Sometimes we just don’t know, but why not ask anyway. If it is, get ready to receive, if it isn’t then no big deal, we really did not need it anyway. But keep asking; sooner or later we are going to get it right. Just don’t get frustrated, keep asking.