I am spending time walking through the Gospels from beginning to end, looking for the moments where Jesus leaned in, lifted up, and loved without hesitation. I want to understand how His grace works in everyday life and what it invites me to become.
Matthew 7 feels like Jesus gathering the whole crowd a little closer and saying, Here is how to live with kindness and courage in a complicated world. He warns against judging others, reminds us to examine our own hearts first, and then offers one of the simplest invitations in scripture. Ask. Seek. Knock.
I picture the disciples taking that in slowly. Doors do not always open the moment we knock. Answers do not always come on our timeline. Yet Jesus speaks with a steadiness that makes me believe that God is far more willing to respond than we are to ask.
And then there is the golden rule, tucked quietly between images of trees bearing fruit and foundations built on rock instead of sand. Treat others the way you want to be treated. It is both ordinary and revolutionary. A way of living that is small enough for daily life and big enough to change the world.
Maybe that is why this chapter still echoes. It reminds me that faith is not only about believing, but about choosing the kind of life that can stand when storms come. A life built on trust. Honesty. Compassion. A life with an open door.
Key Verse:
“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Gracefully yours,
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