Yesterday and today I read Matthew 7:7-14(below). This is where Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount is talking about asking, receiving, and then the Golden Rule. First of all I selfishly think about how I've been repetitively asking for my wife to be healed from this cancer. He states right here that so much more than I want to give good gifts to my daughter, does he give good gifts to us...to me...to my wife....
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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
Then I think about James 4:3 "You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." So is the problem that I have the wrong intentions? I want to live with her the rest of my life. I know that's not wrong. But are there other internal motives that I cannot quite pinpoint that are incorrect?
Then I read the Golden Rule: Matt 7:12 "So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also for them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."
Am I doing this? I keep thinking of this one guy in my life who I am not really treating as I would want him to treat me. I can justify that if I were doing what he is that I would not expect people to treat me well. But that's not what this is saying. I am to treat everyone well.
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