I Want Some More Please

So I was talking with the lovely Lori Van Beveren during Commencement today, when she made a comment about the projector being drowned out by the sunshine. So I told her that I'd ask God to turn the sun down a few shades.

Simple enough right?

I mean God, come on, just this one little favor. And some good grades. A pay-raise. A new guitar. Oh, and a few wins for the Cubs.

I know you created me, sustain me, and forgave me. You also provided me with great friends, family, shelter, and food (I want to take this opportunity to say that it's only been 24 hours since my last caf meal, and I miss it).

So, I promise, after these things, I won't ask for anything more.

I got to thinking, how ungrateful of me! More importantly, how insulting to God! He must get so ridiculously tired of all these petty requests for earthly things. He probably gets even more tired of answering them and listening intently to each and every single prayer I pray to Him.

Nope.

I realized that God NEVER gets tired of hearing my requests, my prayers, or my concerns. When I ask for God's help, He gets SO excited. I saw an episode of Reba the other day where her teenage daughter asked her for help with boys. She almost lost control from her excitement! I'm not a parent, but I'm assuming most parents love it when their kids ask for help.

That's because they love us more than they love themselves, and cherish every opportunity to shower us with that love.

Our Father is the same way.

By no means am I saying that we should ask God for everything like new cars, guitars, and other neat stuff, but I am saying that we should never be ashamed to bring our honest requests to God, because He loves hearing and answering them!

God loves us more than Himself, and He loves to talk with us and hear our problems. Our needs. Our concerns. He loves to help us and He loves to love us.

In the Sermon on The Mount, Jesus says:

⁷"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. ⁹"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

Matthew 7:7-11

Now....about those Cubs....