“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:” (Matthew 7:7). If asking is all about figuring out what we want and then having the faith to ask for it, and seeking is about doing everything we can on our part to qualify for the blessings of which we are seeking, then what is the reason for knocking? Knocking is all about patience. When we have done everything we can to pray for our righteous desire and have taken every action we can think of to bring our righteous desire to fruition, then all that is left is to knock. When we knock on Heaven’s door, we must do so with humility. We have to be willing to accept the fact that the door might not always open the moment after we knock. We may have to leave the door empty handed. We may have to come back and knock dozens or hundreds of times. But our Heavenly Father is never going to stop us from knocking. He won't sic the attack dogs on us. He won't tell us we've used up our knocking quotas for the week. But He also won't open that door until the time is right. Jesus never said if you've already tried knocking and the door didn't open as fast as you wanted it to, then go grab a battering ram and force your way in. If we've tried knocking and the door hasn't opened yet, then we must accept that our Heavenly Father has a very good reason for keeping the door closed. In the meantime, we can go back to asking and back to seeking, and as soon as we've noticed a fundamental shift either in our own attitude and approach or in the circumstances surrounding our beseeching, then by all means we can knock again. And if the door remains closed, the faster we accept that the door won't open on our schedule, the faster we can go back to the drawing board and try something else. The door will open when we are ready for it, and in the meantime, we can keep knocking. One of these times, we will knock and it shall be opened to us.
