Bible Verse of the Day Monday June12th, 2023

Luke 11:13 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!”

Just imagine all the beautiful gifts you have received over the years. Besides Jesus, God's most gracious gift of salvation and eternal life, the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit is the most important gift we could receive from God. To receive God's Holy Spirit, we must surrender our lives to Christ Jesus, heart, mind, spirit, body, and soul. When we pray to God for anything, the Holy Spirit is already there, interceding for us before God on our behalf. 

 

Any human father or mother loves to bestow blessings on our children. We will always respond to our earthly children's requests. Since that is the case, imagine how much God wants to bestow upon us as His children. This verse of today does not speak of God's greater power; the idea in this verse is God's nature compared to the nature of our earthly fathers and mothers. The phrase in this verse, though you are evil, hits us right between the eyes. We are all evil in the sight of God; the only righteousness we know is through our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit of God. In the case of the gift of the Holy Spirit given us by God, we receive that only because and through Christ Jesus and His sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary. 

 

Regardless of the sinful evil we possess by nature, very few earthly parents would not want to give good gifts to their children. The desire to do this comes from God and works even though we are all evil. Jesus tells us that if we can do that good for our earthly children, imagine what a holy and perfect God has in store for us as His children. God knows our needs more than our earthly parents could ever be aware of. The gifts God has for us are far superior to any earthly gift we could bestow on our children. 

Even the eternal and holy God restricts Himself with His patience. Sometimes God gives us what we ask for in exasperation with us. The first king God bestowed upon the Israelites was a consequence of their obstinate and unrelenting demands for a King, notwithstanding His warning to the nation of Israel against an earthly King. Be that as it may, it is not in the Nature of God to continue and become worn down by our consistent begging. Sometimes we may have to keep asking and knocking on God's Door because He wants us to see the importance of not becoming proud, overcoming impatience, and, most importantly, never stopping communicating with God. As a Father, God wants us to continue in a faith-building process, faith in Him. God will lead us into an appreciation of what we do have and, more importantly, never forget from where it came.