The Hands of God

To many, Christianity should be a vehicle that addresses all of life’s questions, challenges and temptations. The fact is, however, that in our attempts to be good Christians what we do is erode the base or foundation of our belief and that is our need to depend on the hands of God to carry us through once we have given ourselves to him through our free will. We want Christianity to succeed. We desire a perfect world safe in the folds of a closed Christian system where all of our questions have an answer, all of our problems have a solution. We want to display to the world a tidy, spotless, open-and-shut position for Christianity. The problem is during our series of actions and steps to achieve this particular end, we are not aware that we are shutting out God.

Asserting wisdom, we become imprudent; we trade the truth of God for a falsehood manifested in the adoration of our manufactured stuff (our systems, our rules and beliefs that govern our personal behavior and our formulas) instead of the Creator – who is forever blessed (see Romans 1:22-25).

That is why Jesus says we should ask. Requesting puts us back in alignment with God. Asking assumes a need relationship with God – a provision of bare essentials spiritual way of life. A vulnerable daily reliance. In a modern world that is determined to instantly satisfy every desire we want, that robs away the spiritual part of us and then peddles it back to us at a cost, we need to revive what it means to ask God.

Those who have not accepted Jesus as their personal savior wander around seeking answers and often falsely finding them in our society of instant gratification. By choosing to accept Jesus you are empowered with the ability to ask. Jesus said himself (Matthew 7:7-8) “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; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”

To those who have already accepted him you know you can ask, you just need to remember to ask and to stay in constant fellowship with God. The hands of God are ALWAYS outstretched to you.