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... death of
Self on the same cross... 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 draw willing hearts to Himself and reveal the mystery of
the indwelling Christ-Life. Our loving Father – The Great Physician – knows we
need heart surgery to remove the callus of Self that encases our heart
preventing the implanted DNA of Jesus from coming forth. Enter Grace. In Grace
we are transformed into Christlikeness... conformed into the nature of His Son.
Surely Christlikeness is yet another “Pearl of Great Price” and “Treasure in
the Field”, the ultimate desire of our Daddy’s heart. So, our task is to keep
asking... to keep seeking... to keep
knocking -- drawing ever closer as we pursue the one passionately pursuing us
-- while being engulfed in a deluge of His immeasurable superabounding Grace...
GRACE...
THE POWER OF INFINITE LOVE
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