Ask Whatever You Wish

  “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in You, ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you” (John 15:7). Did Christ give a blank check that can be cashed with the signature of our desires? Desiring to take Christ at His word, Mary and Jim plea for the life of Timmy, their six-year-old son. He had been playing in the backyard and in a moment of spontaneous delight rushed into the street to chase his run-away ball. The ongoing car swerved to miss him, but it was too late. The driver and his anxious parents are awaiting the outcome of the emergency surgery which is a desperate attempt to save his life. Mary keeps pondering the thought, “If only I had gone outside with him today.” She then cries out to her husband,...