This is truly a good gift from God
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Once you have the full assurance that God loves you and is treating you like a son and not a bastard then you can appreciate these verses.
Many times we get gifts from the Lord and we think they are serpents or scorpions. If you had been praying fully you wouldn't have had that thought.
For example, I was in the boyscouts, I had been a patrol leader for two years and most people moved on from that role at that time. However, my dad volunteered to be the scoutmaster that year and so I felt I should do whatever I could to help him and in my opinion the most important job was patrol leader. So I chose to help my dad and that is why I chose to be a patrol leader again. My dad called a meeting before our new year started and in that meeting he had the other patrol leaders decide who were the kids they didn't want and those were the kids for my patrol. That didn't bother me, I had wanted to help him and the Lord was like, here, take these kids, it will help him even more.
But what I also realized is some people were complaining, my dad was scoutmaster and my best friend was senior patrol leader, and the two previous patrols I had both had won awards for the best patrol and they also both had the scout who had won the award for best scout. To many people it was obvious that the system was rigged. So my dad squashed that thought from day 1. It was a good gift.
Then at the end of that year the patrol no one wanted also won the award for best patrol and one of those scouts also won the award for the best scout, and this was truly a good gift from God.
11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?
12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Once you have the full assurance that God loves you and is treating you like a son and not a bastard then you can appreciate these verses.
Many times we get gifts from the Lord and we think they are serpents or scorpions. If you had been praying fully you wouldn't have had that thought.
For example, I was in the boyscouts, I had been a patrol leader for two years and most people moved on from that role at that time. However, my dad volunteered to be the scoutmaster that year and so I felt I should do whatever I could to help him and in my opinion the most important job was patrol leader. So I chose to help my dad and that is why I chose to be a patrol leader again. My dad called a meeting before our new year started and in that meeting he had the other patrol leaders decide who were the kids they didn't want and those were the kids for my patrol. That didn't bother me, I had wanted to help him and the Lord was like, here, take these kids, it will help him even more.
But what I also realized is some people were complaining, my dad was scoutmaster and my best friend was senior patrol leader, and the two previous patrols I had both had won awards for the best patrol and they also both had the scout who had won the award for best scout. To many people it was obvious that the system was rigged. So my dad squashed that thought from day 1. It was a good gift.
Then at the end of that year the patrol no one wanted also won the award for best patrol and one of those scouts also won the award for the best scout, and this was truly a good gift from God.