Matthew 20
30 And behold, two blind men sitting by the road, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!”31 Then the multitude warned them that they should be quiet; but they cried out all the more, saying, “Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!”
32 So Jesus stood still and called them, and said, “What do you want Me to do for you?”
33 They said to Him, “Lord, that our eyes may be opened.”
34 So Jesus had compassion and touched their eyes. And immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed Him.
They had to ASK Jesus to heal them. If God "made" them ask.. then they weren't really asking.. they were forced to ask? So why did Jesus wait for them to ask? Would God have made Jesus heal them whether they asked or not? Why did He make them institute the question?
James 4
1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 Adulterers and[b] adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
Verse 2, again. Why are we required to ask? God is sovereign and in control of all, so why does He want us to ask Him? Obviously, He has the power to give or take away all things whether we ask or not. Why does He WANT us to ask?
BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO WANT HIM.
Matthew 7
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
God has no glory in making us want Him. Just like if a pastor wouldn't let us leave the church, it wouldn't mean that we liked the church or even loved it. It would only mean that he MADE us stay. The same if your father MADE you love him. If he MAKES you love him, then the love is NOT genuine. It is not love because of how wonderful he is; it involuntary love.
BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO WANT HIM, BECAUSE THERE IS NO GLORY IN FORCED LOVE.
