Seek and You Will Find
October 26
Seek and You Will Find
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened."
— Matthew 7:7-8
Today's Story
G.K. Chesterton described his path to faith as exactly what Matthew 7:7 describes: a seeking that was eventually met by a finding. 'I had not been seeking Christianity,' he wrote. 'I had been seeking truth. I kept following the truth until it turned around and was holding me.' He described the movement from the 'ask' through the 'seek' to the 'knock' as the natural progression of honest inquiry when it encounters God. What begins as a question becomes a pursuit, and the pursuit eventually arrives at a door. And the door opens.
Reflection
Matthew 7:7-8 contains three parallel commands and three parallel promises: ask/receive, seek/find, knock/open. The verbs are progressive: asking is the most passive (verbal request), seeking implies movement and effort, knocking implies arrival at a destination and persistence. The promises are comprehensive: 'everyone who asks receives' — not some, not the deserving, not the spiritually accomplished. Everyone. The God of Jesus' description is one who responds to all honest asking, all genuine seeking, all persistent knocking. The seeking matters not because it earns an answer but because it demonstrates the genuine desire that God delights to answer.
Today's Prayer
Lord, I ask, I seek, I knock — and I trust the promise. You give to everyone who asks. You are found by everyone who seeks. You open to everyone who knocks. I am asking, seeking, knocking now. Amen.
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