I made the point earlier in this edition that the thing God most loves to see in our lives is faith. Yesterday I made the point that what God most wants from us is our love. Here is how these two fit together. God loves it when we connect with his love. He wants us to realise more than anything else that he loves us. I would want the same for my children. More than anything else I want them to know that I love them. So if, for example, my son or daughter began to doubt that I would care for their needs I would be devastated. I want them to believe that I would do anything for them. Likewise God wants us to believe that he will care for us and give us what we need. When we pray he wants us to have that wonderful calm confidence of a child who knows that their father would do anything for them. By ‘anything’ I mean anything but what would be harmful for us. I say ‘no’ to my children all the time because they often ask for things that are not good for them. But my children can have no doubt that I will care for them. They can have no doubt that I will do anything to help them flourish in life. I would be devastated if they doubted this. So too God wants us to believe that he is eager to bless us and make us flourish. Our faith is an acknowledgement of God’s love. It tells God that we receive his love and nothing delights him more.
Ask God to meet your greatest need and trust in him for whatever that is.
Read Luke 11:1-13
