Matthew 7:9 (6-11) “Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone?”
When you’re confronted with that need to defend your faith or to shut someone up (7:6), whom do you turn to, yourself? Who we turn to first, in our hour of need, says a lot about where we are in our relationship with our God. Would you turn to a stranger?
Jesus tells us the story of a man who had visitors come late and he had nothing to give them, Luke 11:9-13. So he goes to his neighbor for help. There he seeks, knocks and asks until his neighbor helps. The law or practice of the day was that you couldn’t turn a neighbor in need away.
But, Jesus tells us that our heavenly Father will meet the asking neighbors need right away, being better than the unwilling neighbor or because as one of His own we turned to Him first. The real question of this part of Jesus message is whom do we consider our neighbor when we have that unexpected need, be it physical or spiritual?
Loyalty involves not hiding my commitment to God, but using difficult situations to let others see how much I trust Him to run my life.
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