(June 18, 2012 at 5:18 pm)Faith No More Wrote: How exactly does one 'ask, seek, and knock,' and does god ever show himself to anyone that is looking but is unaware of these criteria?
There is a parable that describes this process.
Luke 11:
5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; 6 a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’ 7 And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’ 8 I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[e] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.
9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for[f] a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”
did you see what we are Ask, seek, knocking for? The Holy Spirit This is the "fish or egg/good gift" we are to try and find. For in the gift of the Holy Spirit we actually have a measure of God that lives in us and directs us.
So we Ask in prayer, we seek, in the bible, church, in questions like this, and we knock by repeating this process till we get what we have been asking and seeking after.
Christ said all it takes is a mustard seed amount of faith to make all of this work.
May i suggest the next question: How do you know when you got what you asked or sought after?
