Our Footsteps: Too Much to Ask?

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Too Much to Ask?

A few short days ago we lavished gifts on our kids. It was a special time! Any parent should get great joy out of giving gifts to their children... especially gifts they had really wanted and asked for.
This morning as I read through a passage in the Sermon on the Mount, it struck a chord with me in relation to this gift-giving to our children on Christmas day. "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!"

So, shouldn't we be spending time at the feet of the Father? Shouldn't we, with faith like a child, be asking him for those things we need? He doesn't lavish His own gifts upon us because He's a kill-joy. Quite the contrary... He takes great joy in meeting our needs. Bowing our knee to spend a few minutes to ask... is not too much to ask. Is it?

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1). I believe that there is one God. I believe God consists of three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
2). I believe that God is holy, righteous, loving, and just.
3). I believe that mankind is separated from God by sin; that sin entered the world through Adam and death through sin.
4). I believe that, because of sin, man is condemned. Because of God’s utter hatred for sin, there is an eternal conscious punishment in hell for all those who do not come to God on His terms, dealing with their sin.
5). I believe that confessing our sins and confessing Jesus Christ as Lord is the only way to properly deal with the sin that has infected everyone. Jesus Christ paid our sin debt on the cross; reconciliation by substitution. There is nothing we can do to add to the finished work of Christ.
6). I believe in the security of the believer, that once he is truly born-again, there is nothing that would cause him to lose his salvation.
7). I believe that upon the death of a true believer in Christ, that he is ushered immediately into the presence of the Lord, where he will live in everlasting joy in Heaven, experiencing eternal fellowship with God.
8). I believe in believer’s baptism by immersion. I don’t believe baptism is necessary for salvation, but it is a beautiful outward profession of an inward possession.
9). I believe in a literal 6-day creation where God created the heavens and the earth and then rested on the seventh day.
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