Boldly Be

Sunday December 22^nd, Isaiah 7: God spoke to Ahaz and said, "Ask for a sign from your God. Ask anything. Be extravagant. Ask for the moon!" But Ahaz said, "I'd never do that. I'd never make demands like that on God!" Do we sometimes not ask God for what we want because deep down inside we still want to be in control?  If we ask God and we get it, then we have to admit to ourselves that our gracious God is indeed a gracious God and not some automaton that responds to Our doing, Our pleading, Our manipulation.  All we have and all we will ever have is a gift from God and that is a hard fact to swallow for many.  We want to believe that deep down inside we are in control and God answered Our prayers.  We are in control and we believed and belonged to the Right theology/church.  To prove we are Right and in the right all we are asked to do us use it for the small kingdoms and churches of this world, but then sometimes we realize it is simply for our little kingdom (small k).  So, Ask, Seek, Knock and Boldly Be the Kingdom (capitol K) in this world and let God be God.