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Ask Shamelessly 

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  In the Bible, Jesus teaches us to ask.  He gives this lessen in Luke 11:5-8:  And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. This word “impudence” means “shamelessness.”

    

  The point is that Jesus is inviting you and me to ask shamelessly.  We are undeserving anyway.  Yes, Jesus has invited us into friendship with Him, but when it comes to asking, He is teaching us to approach Him shamelessly.  Ask with passion, ask unrelentingly, ask because someone needs something.    Jesus wants us to be diligent, not apathetic; to show some gumption.  

    

  This is not the first time Jesus encouraged asking.  In Matthew 7:7-11 He says, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are 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!

    

  Here He is making the point that His Father, now our Father, is a generous father.  I believe that although He already knows what you need, however, He really likes the relationship. He likes it when we come to Him shamelessly and ask.

 

  Asking more, Pastor Roger