If a generation that started with questions and ended up with Jesus tried to start the next generation off with Jesus, wouldn’t that generation eventually have to go back to asking questions – the very ones it already has the answer to? Can you find Jesus without looking for him? Can you have the answers without going through the questions? Is it possible to circumvent this natural process of seeking and finding?
Is it possible to have all this dropped in your lap? Can you receive, find and enter without asking, seeking and knocking? Well, I suppose you can, but wouldn’t it be rather rude and presumptive not to knock first? If a person has come by all this so easily, who’s to say it wouldn’t be just as easily taken away? After all, “Easy come, easy go.”
In seeking there is a glory that must be guarded. The parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son show a persistent Father bent on finding. Amazingly, God plays this game by the same rules as we do. If he is that persistent about finding us, how can we expectant to get to him any more cheaply?
John Fischer The Catch 
Hello John,
AWESOME message, at least for me this moring. Many folks, myself included, at some time in their life think of the blessings they receive as easy things to obtain. When I need some thing, such as, instant healing or understanding all I need to do is order it up and if one store does not have it, then try another store, or online or maybe I can always get the generic version. Not a good approach. Thanks for your insight and have a Blessed Day.
Paul doesn’t give us much backstory when he writes to young Timothy,
“I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.” (2 Tim. 1:5)
Did the faith fall into his lap because of his rich heritage, or, as one who “started with Jesus”, did he need to go back to asking questions before finding the answer in Jesus?
Somewhere along the way, he needed to make it his own and that usually includes some type of struggle.
Thank you, John