Today we begin worship with:
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 the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
This verse leaves out from whom we are asking, on whose door we are knocking, and for what we are seeking. It is a general statement built off the truisms that if we don't seek we will not find. If we don't knock, no-one will open. And if we don't ask, no-one will respond. The verse simply encourages us to become connected and interdependent.
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!
Yes, one of those connections is God. For His charity is that of a Heavenly Father to His children. And by this we are encouraged to be dependent upon Him.
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
But the passage concludes with our human connections in a way that summarizes not only the previous three chapters, but all of scripture.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Without those connections we cannot fulfill the purposes of God.
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