When my family and I travel to see my grandparents, we often listen to audiobooks. Our favorite series is The Chronicles of Narnia.
The Chronicles of Narnia often parallel ideas and/or ideals of the Christian faith. In The Magician's Nephew, two children named Digory and Polly are on a journey with a flying, talking horse named Fledge.
Digory makes a comment about how they should have asked Aslan for a particular item for their journey. Then he has a palm-to-the-forehead moment when he realizes that Aslan probably already knew that they needed that item. Fledge made a point by saying that even though Aslan knew, he still liked to be asked.
How many times have you tried to do something on your own, but then realized that you couldn't? Then, instead of asking for help, you simply let yourself fail. Your palm-to-the-forehead moment comes when you realize that someone could have helped you. You didn't have to fail at all! But because you didn't ask for help, you failed.
"Ask and it shall be given you......" Matthew 7:7
God knows everything. But He wants us to ask. We are to rely on God in everything, for everything. Asking God to meet the needs in our lives demonstrates a certain degree of trust in God and a reliance on Him. If we never had to ask for anything, and it was just given to us, we would never learn hos to wait patiently. Nor would we learn to really, truly trust. Asking God for something demonstrates the childlike faith we are to have.
God is waiting, wanting to give us the good things He has in store.
All we need to do is ask.
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