HOW GOD WORKS

It was this line in Psalm 2 that got me thinking on this today. God says, 'Ask me and I will give you the nations.' (vs.8). God is asking us to ask him for something he wants to give us.
 
Let's delve straight into our musing, here¼ So God did make mankind, and we are told at the outset that he made us 'in his image'. (Genesis 1:27) Something of God is breathed out and into mankind. You. Me. Jesus reminded his own haters about this in John 10:34, 'In your own scriptures it is written, 'You are all sons of god...'' (quoting Psalm 82:6)
 
So God has made us in his own image - much like your child is made in your image, and/or you are in the image of your parents.
 
As a parent there is often times that I want something for my child, but I want my child to want it. Not only do I want him/her to want it, I want it to be so present in their values and purposes, that they come and ask me for it. If, for example, my son comes and asks me to give him advice about some struggle, and to pray with him, he is asking me for something I have wanted to give him - but have not. Why? Because without his asking, what I would be giving would not be received or real.
 
The spirit of truth in the connection, the counsel, the faith, the support, would not be consummated in spirit and truth, would not be my son's, without his asking.
 
Jesus said, 'My words are spirit and they are life.' (John 6:63) He also told us that 'God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit...' (John 4:24) Jesus, breathed forth in and of God, prayed to the Father, and only did what he saw the Father do. (John 5:19) And in the same 'spirit' and mystery of life and love and God and relationship, God asks us to ask him for what he wants to give us.