“If I had only known”
Asking is often hard enough in the normal course of life. We seem to disqualify ourselves when it comes to spiritual matters or when it involves things that we don’t want others to know.
Yes, we agree that we all have problems and worries, but we are not ready to be the one to admit it is tearing us apart. We come to church with many different reasons and intents but revealing our hurts and asking for help is not comfortable.
Watching someone go forward for prayer or fill out a commitment card to Jesus makes you wonder. You look at them and wonder what is going on in their life. They may even look like they have it all together, so it must be bad. Of course, you feel that is what they will think of you.
Deceived to accept “not having” through the lies we hear and tell ourselves. It is not our fault when we do not know or are confused. It is our lack of believing in what God tells us is true. We find humor and say “A lost man will not ask for directions.” What are you NOT asking God – that He wants to tell you?
”I wish I had known that God really wanted me to ask Him and talk to Him. God wanted to have a relationship with Him. I was shown in the Bible, in God’s Word; to ask and it will be given. (1) God Himself tells me to pray to Him and ask for help, ask for direction, ask for protection, and ask for wisdom. I only had to ask to have the TRUTH of God in my life. I felt so ashamed and I was so convinced that even God would not want to heal my broken life, that I would not ask.”
When we choose to listen to our wisdom and follow the broken ways of the world around us, we are not asking for Godly wisdom. How many poor choices do we have to make before we ASK God for what he promises to give us? If we lack the wisdom that is founded in truth, the truth of God, we only must ask. (2)
John 14:13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son”
(1) Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
(2) James 1;5 “But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him”
