If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Lk11.13 NKJV
We may ask for any number of things from God and while He does not promise to always give us what we ask, He does offer us the assurance that His answer will be a good one. That is, He will never answer us in any way that does not bring His goodness to us. More than likely, He will give us something better than what we have asked.
Jesus tells us that the Holy Spirit is the good gift that Father is more than willing to give. Christ may very well be telling us that the Holy Spirit is the good, even better answer to many of our request. We ask for wisdom, He gives us the Holy Spirit. We ask for health, He gives us the Holy Spirit. We ask for whatever, and God’s better answer is the Holy Spirit.
What a wonderfully good gift is the Spirit of God. He is the mind of Christ. He possesses for our asking the “one thing that is needed,“ in any circumstance. He is our help, light, encouragement even enabling power. The Holy Spirit not only communicates what God’s will is for us--what path is best, He empowers us to walk it working in us to will and do God's good pleasure. His fruit is all that we really desire to be in Christ--love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. It should not surprise us that when we have asked God for something, He may very well answer, “I am here,” rather than, “Here it is.”
We do not know what we ought to pray for,
but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
with groans that words cannot express.
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit,
because the Spirit intercedes for the saints
in accordance with God's will. Rm8
6/13/07 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
