Welcome to WORD17!

Our memory verse this month is Matthew 7:7.

There are three verbs. We talked about that a couple of Mondays ago here.

All are separate, or are they?

Digging into BlueLetterBible.org, we find a daisy-chain connection between all three verbs and our faith. Here’s what the Matthew Henry Commentary on BlueLetterBible.org offers:
“Ask; represent your wants and burthens to God, and refer yourselves to him for support and supply, according to his promise.

Seek, as for a thing of value that we have lost, or as the merchantman that seeks goodly pearls. Seek by prayer, Dan. 9:3.

Knock, as he that desires to enter into the house knocks at the door.’ We would be admitted to converse with God, would be taken into his love, and favour, and kingdom; sin has shut and barred the door against us; by prayer, we knock; Lord, Lord, open to us. Christ knocks at our door (Rev. 3:20; Cant. 5:2); and allows us to knock at his, which is a favour we do not allow to common beggars. Seeking and knocking imply something more than asking and praying.”¹

Do you see it?

Ask – go to Him for all our support, for everything we need.

Seek – diligently, as though we’ve lost a treasure.

Knock – as though we desire and have hopefilled expectation to enter, to talk with God.

And all of this is wrapped in a neat virtual bow of understanding that God is God and man is man. He is the God, the master who made the universe and we are a creation of His hand. We go to Him, setting aside our will, and seeking diligently His, trusting our God knows best.

And the door opens wide.

Action Step:

In what area is God wooing you to ask, seek, and knock? In what area do you sense a struggle? Consider offering it to Him now.

¹ Blue Letter Bible. “Matthew Henry: Commentary on Matthew 7”. Accessed 4/20/17. http://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/mhc/Mat/Mat_007.cfm?a=936007.

---

Find past weeks of WORD17 on this Pinterest board.

Energized and encouraged by the testimony of others? Check out the beautiful stories of God in their lives here.