Shameless Audacity

“Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?” – Matthew 7:9 Today, I want to continue focusing on what it means to ask God with “shameless audacity.” Pastor Tim Keller put it this way: “No one wakes up a king at three in the morning to ask for a cup of water, except the king’s child.” In Jesus’ time, no one would think to disturb the king in the middle of the night for bread—except a child. The king, though sleepy, would get up, take his child by the hand, go to the pantry, fetch some bread, maybe add some butter or toast it, give it to the child, watch him eat, walk him back to bed, kiss him on the head, and return to sleep. That’s what shameless audacity looks like. That’s what it means to be a child of