IF NOT FOR GRACE

We ask God as a means of receiving from Him, we seek God in order to find Him, or rather to be found by Him, and we knock to gain entrance into His Kingdom. The promised results of our efforts are stunning in their spiritual significant: We receive, we find, and it is opened to us. In a sense “knock” is to continue to ask and seek, sort of a built in metaphor, the perseverance that unlocks the King’s domain. The “Pearl of Great Price” and the “Treasure in the Field” are metaphorically interpreted several ways and rightly so for God’s word is by no means shallow or common. They may represent man, individually or corporately, as seen through the eyes of a loving Savior who was willing to sacrifice His all on the Cross... to purchase us with His precious blood. They may represent Jesus, who certainly is worthy of man’s pitiful sacrifice, his life in submission to the Lordship of Jesus... a life for a LIFE. They may also represent God’s awesome Grace, His enabling power that provisions all that we experience as His children... Grace enabling what it commands. We ask and Grace answers... we receive. We seek and Grace answers... we find. We knock and Grace answers... opening the door into God’s presence. God releases an immense and unbroken supply of His Grace to mankind, to bring us to Himself and transform us into Christlikeness... a spiritual heart transplant. Our task is to keep knocking, to keep asking and seeking, ever drawing closer to the one passionately pursuing us, while sinking in His immeasurable ocean of Grace... His superabounding Grace...