Matthew 7:7-8
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
The average child asks 125 questions a day, the average adult, 6. What happened between childhood and adulthood that so jaded us we no longer have the same thirst for knowledge?
We should never lose our curiousity for the Holy. Question everything, eagerly seek to know more about Him. Question constantly the acts of glory and holiness that happen daily around us and in us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes says "A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original shape."
As Christians, we daily risk letting our spiritual lives fall into the pre-determined ruts on the road in front of us. We daily struggle with keeping things like prayer, worship, and scripture reading from being heuristic.
Heuristic - something that is rote and takes no thought to complete. It is habitual action. (i.e. tying shoes, typing, and walking.)
Find new ways to get into the Word and get the Word into you.
Psalm 63:1
O God, You are my God; I shall seek You earnestly; my soul thirsts for You, my flesh yearns for You, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
God responds to spiritual desperation, not some routine or huristic bias.
Live like you were to die tomorrow, and learn like you were to live forever. Gandhi
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