Open Sesame

Jesus said to his disciples: “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; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 

Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asked for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asked for a fish? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him. “Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.” (Matthew 7:7-12)

What do we get when we ask; what do we find when we seek; what door will be opened when we knock? Faith.  It is there for the asking and taking, if we are so obliged.  If we truly seek faith in a loving God, then we receive the bread and fish.  

Stones or snakes only the devil will provide, even when we don’t ask or seek.  The devil’s door is always open; there is no need to knock.  He bids us an easy entry through so many temptations we find difficult to refuse. 

The key to the sought-after door on which we knock is a simple open sesame-like phrase: “We will do to others whatever we would have them do to us.”  

Deacon David Pierce