Luke 11:9 “I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you.”
Luke 11:9-10: “I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.”
Luke 18:7 “Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?”
These are passages I have been reading over and over again lately. God is teaching me how to pray. I don’t know why I (and many others) often have a hard time grasping simple, spiritual truths. They’re right in front of my eyes. They are truths that have been taught to me all my life. Yet there is a part of me that expects the secrets of the Lord to be hard to understand, great mysteries that take all my cleverness to figure out.
“Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” Simple stuff to understand. Pray. Don’t stop praying. Don’t give up. Ever! But when the answer doesn’t come in a day (sometimes, in a minute), I am tempted to give up. I am tempted to believe God doesn’t want to answer me. God doesn’t care about my needs or worries. But that is just the opposite of the truth. God is testing me. God wants me to prove my determination, not so much to Him but to myself. Do I really believe He can hear me? Do I really believe I can hear Him? Will He come through for me, answer this prayer, not only with words but with actions? If so, I should never give up asking.
So the secrets of the Lord are not hard to grasp, but hard to apply. A mystery is not in the understanding, but in the EXECUTION. All the deep mysterious of God are in Christ; He wants us to learn of His ways and of His kingdom. They’re for the taking. But am I willing to obey the truth when I hear it? That will decide how much of God is in me.
