What should I do with my life? Should I work here or there? Should I go back to school? Do I even want to go to school? Who should I marry? What does God want me to do? Why is this happening? Why isn't this happening?
Questions.
Questions.
Questions.
But you know what the funny thing is? We ask these questions in our heads, even to other people.
But how often do we genuinely ask God?
How often do we go to Him, genuinely, vulnerably, honestly, and ask Him our questions?
To take it a step further, how often do we listen for His answer? How often do we wait for Him?
Speaking for myself, it's not nearly as often as I should.
It's something I'm learning.
I'm learning more and more each day that I often have not because I ask not.
I'm learning more and more each day to go to God with my questions.
I'm learning more and more each day to ask God for the things I want to see happen. In my life. In my friends' lives. In the world.
I'm learning.
Prayer is powerful.
So often God wants to give us good things. He longs to pour out blessings to His children. To give us peace.
But we don't even ask.
We assume that He can't - or more often that He won't.
But He is a good, loving, caring, gracious, generous Father.
As children, we ask our parents for everything. That pony we never got for Christmas. That new game system the day it came out. Sometimes we got what we asked for. Sometimes we didn't.
But we asked.
Why did we stop asking? Why did we start assuming the answer?
Whatever you need. Whatever you want. Whatever you're looking for. The questions you have, the answers you desire. Go to God with them today.
I can't promise the answer will be what you wanted, or what you expected.
But I can promise He will answer.
"ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 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
"...yet you do not have what you want because you don't ask God for it..." -james 4:2
"this is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us." -1 john 5:14
