Ask

This is me when I was 3(?) and the adorable ceramic cookie jar is Charlie the chipmunk. Charlie used to Sit on my grandma Loeffelbein’s kitchen counter. My parents would not let me ask for cookies. It was rude to ask. They did not say that I couldn’t just stand in the kitchen and stare at Charlie until my grandmother offered me a cookie. I’m sure I drove my grandma nuts with my wistful silence.

This is similar to how I live my life as a believer in Jesus. I look wistfully at other people’s lives but I Don’t ask God for what I lack.

We have not, because we ask not.

This is what James said about prayer.

We don’t have from God because we do not ask of God.

In John 14 Jesus says to ask God the Father and he will give us whatever we ask for.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
John.14:12-14 ESV

This is Sunday, or whatever day it is that you are reading this post…

Ask.

Ask God for forgiveness. Ask for God for a new relationship with him. Ask God that relationships be restored in our families, in our marriages, in our friendships. Ask God for our needs. Ask. Talk to our Father.

When Jesus taught his disciples to pray he said to start with “our Father in heaven”.

Ask.

(Sorry for driving you crazy grandma, and thanks for the cookies!)