Sooner or later we find ourselves surprised by an unexpected demand. Careful planning and management can reduce our helplessness or vulnerability to circumstances, but inevitably life catches us unprepared. Even those who feel they do not need God because they do not have a care in the world will very often turn to God when they face danger. If they have no need for God why should they care whether He is compassionate or not? Yet there is no one who is truly self-sufficient and independent of God.

The Churches in these nations are practically empty and many have been converted into places of amusement because most of these people believe they are capable of providing for themselves and therefore see no need for God. If such a friend can respond to human need, how can we doubt the willingness of God to respond to our needs? How can we doubt the words of Jesus, which says to ‘ask and it shall be given’? Today science and technology seem to have made many indifferent to the goodness of God as we see in many nations especially the developed ones. By contrasting this man with God is to encourage us to trust in the goodness of God. But in today’s parable, we notice that the unsympathetic friend bears no resemblance to the compassionate God whom Christ taught us to call Father. In most parables depicting God, Christ normally uses the main character as a God-type. Jesus often taught using parables and as is always the case, today’s parable teaches another very important lesson. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.' 11:9-10 'Ask, and it will be given to you seek, and you will find knock, and it will be opened to you.

Ask and it is given summary