Over the weekend Linda and I were in the Dallas area at Lindsey and Jeff’s.
Both of us forgot to bring our cell phone chargers, which wasn’t a big deal for me since Lindsey, Jeff, and I all have iPhones and I just used theirs.
Now there is a charger in my truck for Linda but the 12-volt plug isn’t powered full time.
I can turn on the key and then turn it off again and power will be supplied for some unknown-to-me time limit.
So, I walk into the bedroom to get my truck keys, pick them up, and walk outside to the truck.
Once there I realize that I had picked up my watch; a very useful device for telling time and date but hardly effective at opening up the truck.
How did I grab my watch instead of the key?
I don’t know but back into the house I go to get the key.
I couldn’t help but laugh at myself a bit and once I told Linda, she couldn’t help but laugh at me a lot!
Is there a spiritual application to this story?
I’m sure there is and it deals with what you receive from God.
“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. Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being 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! Matt 7:7-12
If you ask God for a blessing He is not going to give you a curse.
But I think there are some strong stipulations on this.
Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. 1 John 5:14-15
We must ask “according to His will”.
But what is the will of God?
How can you know what His will is for you?
That sounds like a discussion for next time.