Everyone Who Asks Receives

Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread, will give a stone? Or if the child asks for a fish, will give a snake? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

Matthew 7:7-12

Jesus gave his disciples the golden rule. He told them the secret to fulfilling the entire Old Testament relational regulations was to love others and live for their benefit.

As difficult as it is to live for the benefit of others, Jesus knew His followers could consistently live out this ethic as they drew strength from a righteousness that went beyond duty and outward conformity to rules. It is a righteousness that can come only from God Himself.

If we are Jesus-followers, walk in His steps – loving others and living for their benefit.

Love is the debt we owe one another.

Our Daily Bread – May 7, 2008