![]() ![]() Many a sincere follower of Jesus Christ is familiar with His promising, “Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock, and it will be opened to you” ( Matthew 7:7 Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you seek, and you shall find knock, and it shall be opened to you:Īmerican King James Version ×). But with all this understood, are you ready today or tomorrow for God to interrupt your life yet again? The two-way knocking in Scripture You trust that this same God interrupts our personal lives in calling us to a saving relationship with Him. Many of you as readers of Beyond Today magazine believe there is an intervening God who not only acted as Creator or First Cause but has interrupted time and space repeatedly through history in working out His plan to ultimately establish His coming Kingdom on earth. ![]() Peter himself had learned that growing in grace and knowledge is not an event, but an ongoing developmental experience in our ability to respond to Christ’s great invitation of “Follow Me.” I speak of a life-changing knock on the door of our hearts, which can only be opened by our inner awareness and willingness to allow God to enter when He comes knocking-and He will! This is an essential step forward if we are to, as the apostle Peter admonished, “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” ( 2 Peter 3:18 2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But there’s a far more profound knocking on a door that calls for utmost response. While all in fun, the interchange reflects social expectation of answering the door when someone knocks. On hearing someone say “Knock, knock,” we know to reply, “Who’s there?” as the setup for a joke.
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