We’re in a training season of teaching Hudson he has to ask, and not just tell me he wants something.
Hudson is on the brink of turning 4.
I love the doors that have opened since his language and curiosity senses have developed. He often asks insightful questions now and each one surprises me with how well he begins to understand things.
One particular feat we have been working on though is the need to “ask for things” not just tell me he “wants” them.
He’ll look at the water cup I’m refilling and instead of asking, he just tell me he wants it, or he likes water. While I’m not discrediting the fact that we all have needs. It’s more to say that he forgets the need to ask. Without asking what purpose is it to just live in wanting?
I reflected on my Christian walk in this, asking myself. How often do I find myself in a want or need and forget to ask God about it. In knowing Him as my savior and the closeness I have with Him it’s easy for me to take for granted that He knows my needs.
But how much more respect and love can I show my creator by simply asking with an open heart to Him.
I love this passage in Matthew, “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7-11 NIV).
And also this verse in John, “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” (1 John 5:14 NIV).
Do I just naturally know my children’s needs usually? Yes. Does God know my needs? Yes. But how much more joy does it bring my heavenly father to simply just talk with Him and ask. 🧡
Xoxo, Shantel
