Woe is me!

   "And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you." Luke 11:9

   Jesus has just taught his disciples to pray in the preceding verses, and now he gives them this. Seek, ask and knock.

   Do I ask for something because I know that God is the giver of all things, or do I ask out of a sense of poverty and desperation? Jesus also said in Matthew that "blessed are the poor in spirit", so a realization of my poverty in spiritual things is not a bad thing, but necessary to my asking and receiving.

   So I must ask myself, how often am I so desperate for God's Spirit that I seek, ask and knock?

   I knows that it sounds good, but then up jumps the sin of self-sufficiency, and I think that I am not really so desperate after all.

   In Proverbs it says that "those who seek me, find me". Seeking is not a casual process, it is more a consuming one. One that says that if I don't find You, I am undone. Woe is me.

   I need to seek, really seek, those things that God wants for me in my life, because if not...woe is me.