{"id":260,"date":"2023-07-12T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/?p=260&2023"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T00:00:32","slug":"when-god-says-not-yet-luke-11-1-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/gospeladventure\/when-god-says-not-yet-luke-11-1-13\/","title":{"rendered":"When God Says &#8220;Not Yet&#8221;: Luke 11:1-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"spoiler spoiler-style-2\"><div class=\"spoiler-title\">Focus Passage: Luke 11:1-13 (GNT)<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-content\"><p><sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he had finished, one of his disciples said to him, \u201cLord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0Jesus said to them, \u201cWhen you pray, say this:<br \/>\r\n \u00a0\u2018Father:<br \/>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0May your holy name be honored;<br \/>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0may your Kingdom come.<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>3<\/sup>\u00a0Give us day by day the food we need.<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>4<\/sup>\u00a0Forgive us our sins,<br \/>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0for we forgive everyone who does us wrong.<br \/>\r\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And do not bring us to hard testing.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p><sup>5<\/sup>\u00a0And Jesus said to his disciples, \u201cSuppose one of you should go to a friend&#8217;s house at midnight and say, \u2018Friend, let me borrow three loaves of bread.\u00a0<sup>6<\/sup>\u00a0A friend of mine who is on a trip has just come to my house, and I don&#8217;t have any food for him!\u2019\u00a0<sup>7<\/sup>\u00a0And suppose your friend should answer from inside, \u2018Don&#8217;t bother me! The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can&#8217;t get up and give you anything.\u2019\u00a0<sup>8<\/sup>\u00a0Well, what then? I tell you that even if he will not get up and give you the bread because you are his friend, yet he will get up and give you everything you need because you are not ashamed to keep on asking.\u00a0<sup>9<\/sup>\u00a0And so I say to you: Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.\u00a0<sup>10<\/sup>\u00a0For those who ask will receive, and those who seek will find, and the door will be opened to anyone who knocks.\u00a0<sup>11<\/sup>\u00a0Would any of you who are fathers give your son a snake when he asks for fish?\u00a0<sup>12<\/sup>\u00a0Or would you give him a scorpion when he asks for an egg?\u00a0<sup>13<\/sup>\u00a0As bad as you are, you know how to give good things to your children. How much more, then, will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"passage-read-more\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke 11:1-13&amp;version=gnt\" title=\"Read the passage on BibleGateway.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"hyperlink-underlined\">Luke 11:1-13<\/a> in context and\/or in other translations on BibleGateway.com!<\/p><\/div><\/div>\r\n<p>Have you ever been confused by something someone has said? Has someone ever seemed to contradict themselves within a few short statements? Have you felt that God, or maybe even Jesus, has done this?<\/p>\r\n<p>In my reading and my study of this passage on prayer, I see an interesting potential contradiction within this verse on prayer and persistence.<\/p>\r\n<p>Our passage opens up with Luke\u2019s version of Jesus\u2019 model prayer, and immediately it moves into Jesus teaching about how to be persistent with our requests. This teaching seems to indicate that sometimes our persistence can change God\u2019s mind and turn a \u201cno\u201d into a \u201cyes\u201d \u2013 however mixed in with this teaching is the idea that God is the perfect Father and He will never give us something that will hurt us.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you put these ideas together, one might conclude that God is a loving God, but perhaps He is stubborn, set in His way, or maybe even deaf since we must repeatedly persist in our requests for them to be \u201cheard\u201d or paid attention to. However a stubborn or deaf father is not a model or \u201cperfect\u201d father and if God is our perfect Father, making us repeat a request doesn\u2019t seem all that loving.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Is this a \u201ctest\u201d that God gives us to see how devoted we are?<\/em> I would hope not, because while I\u2019d fail miserably, it paints God as a demanding deity who requires us to perform \u2013 and if that were the case, there would be little reason for Jesus to have paid the price of our sins.<\/p>\r\n<p>Perhaps, what is going on in this passage has more to do with the request than it does the requester. If we look closely at what we have been promised, Jesus is talking about God giving the Holy Spirit, and that is His perfect Fatherly gift.<\/p>\r\n<p>It\u2019s possible that our persistently asking for \u201ca snake\u201d or \u201ca scorpion\u201d will be granted \u2013 even though God knows it will cause us harm, but instead, what God really wants to give us is the best gift He can: The Holy Spirit living in us.<\/p>\r\n<p>It is also possible that God knows the best timing for granting our request, and that right now might not be the best time for us to receive this. At least for me, it might mean that a part of my character needs to develop more, or part of my life needs to become stronger for God\u2019s gift to truly be a blessing in my life.<\/p>\r\n<p>What is true in these times is that <strong>when God says \u201cnot yet\u201d, and when we persist in our request, our character and trust in God is being formed \u2013 even though we might not see or feel it in the moment.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>God really does want to give us the best gift He can, though the best gift in His mind might be different than the gift we are requesting. Persistence may be able to change God\u2019s mind, but it doesn\u2019t change God\u2019s love for you and me, and it doesn\u2019t stop God from waiting until we are ready to receive the gifts we want and need.<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"aj-wrap-up--260\" class=\"aj-wrap-up\"><p><em>This thought was inspired by studying the <strong>Walking With Jesus<\/strong> \u201cReflective Bible Study\u201d package. To discover insights like this in your own study time, <a class=\"underline\" href=\"https:\/\/reflectivebiblestudy.com\/\" title=\"Check out Reflective Bible Study!\">click here<\/a> and give Reflective Bible Study a try today!<\/em><\/p><p><em><a class=\"underline\" href=\"javascript:void(0);\" onClick=\"rbs_aj_inline_subscribe(this, '260');\">Subscribe<\/a> to this blog and never miss an insight.<\/em><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever been confused by something someone has said? Has someone ever seemed to contradict themselves within a few short statements? Have you felt that God, or maybe even Jesus, has done this? 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