I hate to do this to you, but I have to say three words that you probably don’t want to hear. You can cover your ears if you like, but it won’t do much good. BACK TO SCHOOL!

If you you haven't yet been shopping for school clothes, you pretty soon will be.You have about a month or so, but it’s coming. Sometimes you must go from one store to another because you can’t find your size or maybe the price was too high. But you know that your mom and/or dad will do their best to get you ready for school. They wouldn’t buy you shoes that are a size too small; they wouldn’t buy you clothes that are way too big. They wouldn’t make you wear a hat that was pink with purple polka dots. Now, moms and dads are sinners like anybody else, but they wouldn’t make you look silly or hurt you.

Jesus said that if that’s true of people who are sinners, how much more is it true of our heavenly Father. He said a father wouldn’t give you a poisonous animal like a scorpion if you asked for an egg. How much more will your perfect and loving heavenly Father give gift good gifts when you ask him. He said: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."

God knows what we need before we ask for it, but He wants us to remember how much we need His help in our lives. He loves to help us, but sometimes we have to pray more than once. He wants us to know where all of our gifts in life come from. That’s what Jesus said when the disciples asked Him about prayer, and that’s what you and I need to remember. God loves us more than we know; Jesus died on the cross and rose again to meet our greatest need; He’ll take care of all the other things as well.

You can trust the Heavenly Father because He cared enough to send the very best. He sent His Son.