Elva Frye, my piano teacher and a woman of God that I highly admire and look up to, lost her phone today while she was teaching our piano class. We looked high and low, traced and retraced her steps and the places she could have misplaced it, searched her car, searched her purse, and prayed.
When things are lost, my older sister tells me "God knows where all lost things are; He sees it so ask Him to show you where it is. Nothing is lost to God." So I took Elva's hand, closed my eyes, and asked my All Knowing Father to show us where the phone was. I asked. We looked. No phone.
After 30 minutes expired,Elva began panicking, in more of an irritated sense than frantic. With a last attempt,she mustered her will up to go into a room she had already checked twice before. I sat down, opened my lap top, and chatted with a couple friends. I knew God heard our prayers so I was just going to rest in that and get the rest of my day going. Suddenly, booming from behind a creaked door, I hear Elva's voice saying, "GOD FOUND MY PHONE FOR ME!" Yes, God knew where it was all along and He led Elva to it. Proceeding a hearty "hallelujah", Elva said that when we prayed, I was the one to ask for God to reveal where her phone was, but she didn't ask, BUT, right before she entered in that room for the third time, she stopped on the stairs and asked God to show her where her cell was hiding. She began to tell me that she has a history of doing this: even with her husband, he'll ask for something to be found, but she won't. Always, though, when she has the faith and asks, the lost item is found.
I couldn't help but directly think of this lesson as to how it would relate to our lives and relationships with God. Doesn't He say, "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened" (Mat. 7:7-9)? Yes, Jesus Christ told us these words. And following these words, Jesus paints us this scenario: "Or what man is there among you, who if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, ow much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!"
What are you asking for? What am I asking for right now in life? Direction? Vision? Love? Patience? A job? A spouse? Well my sisters and brothers, let us ask- LET US ASK. Talk to God about it. Shut your door, open His word that is the lamp unto your feet, and ask for the things that are weighing heavy on your heart. He hears you.
Elva's phone was lost. Elva asked Her Heavenly Father where it was. Elva's Heavenly Father took her straight to it.
Let us ask.
