Ask, Seek, Knock

Warning:  This was written after several cups of coffee and maybe a pop or two this morning trying to get a kick start on the day, but none the less it was written here so I'll share it, hopefully it make sense to you, if not,  sorry, I'll try to fix it later  :)


⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ 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

Ask, Seek, Knock.  3 seemingly easy things to do right?  Yeah, maybe not so much.  In fact, they are very very hard.  But why are they so hard?  Why is it so hard to communicate with God?  With each other?

Why does the word Ask come first?  Did Jesus for some reason decide to order the words by how many letters are in them?  I doubt it.  Was it becasue it was the only of the 3 that started with a vowel?  Ha, ha, I'm pretty confident that wasn't it.  Does it even make a difference as to which one comes first?  Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't, I had never really thought about it..... until now.

I don't know this thought came to me becasue I'm preparing myself for a crazy weekend with Jr. Highers on a retreat by coming up with things that make no sense at all, or if there really is something to this.  But I think Asking is the central key to both Seeking and Knocking.  I mean if you really think about it, (or over think it like I'm probably doing)  To Seek and To Knock both involve the need to ask.

One of my hopes is to let this verse be more of a key in my life, to often I've struggled with Asking, I've never been that good at it, usually I just try my best to take care of situations myself (usually finding it doesn't work very well)  How about you?  Do you Ask first?  Do you ask the questions at all?  Or are you trying to keep it all bottled up inside and not let anyone know.

Before you can seek what God wants you to find, and before you can enter into the house of God, you first must ask.  Once you do that, you'll find what you need to find, and he'll invite you in to the already opened door.

Sounds like something we should do with eachother more too.