Mar 07【每日活水】确信神是我们的天父

5  耶稣又说：「你们中间谁有一个朋友半夜到他那里去，说：『朋友！请借给我三个饼；

6  因为我有一个朋友行路，来到我这里，我没有什么给他摆上。』

7  那人在里面回答说：『不要搅扰我，门已经关闭，孩子们也同我在床上了，我不能起来给你。』

8  我告诉你们，虽不因他是朋友起来给他，但因他情词迫切地直求，就必起来照他所需用的给他。

9  我又告诉你们，你们祈求，就给你们；寻找，就寻见；叩门，就给你们开门。

10  因为，凡祈求的，就得着；寻找的，就寻见；叩门的，就给他开门。

11  你们中间作父亲的，谁有儿子求饼，反给他石头呢？求鱼，反拿蛇当鱼给他呢？

12  求鸡蛋，反给他蝎子呢？

13  你们虽然不好，尚且知道拿好东西给儿女；何况天父，岂不更将圣灵给求他的人吗？」

5  Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread;

6  a friend of mine on a journey has come to me, and I have no food to offer him.’

7  And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is already locked, and my children and I are in bed. I can’t get up and give you anything.’

8  I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity he will surely get up and give you as much as you need.

9  “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

10  For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

11   “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

12  Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?

13  If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”