Today’s Thought “Using A Magnifying Glass” G. Ward John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” Water flows from our tap, purified by local treatment plants and we dare not consume anything less than bottled water, while some in remote parts of the world just desire clean drinking water, separate from where the wild animals also drink. This scenario given is analogous of what the scripture represents in its largest sense of the sentence; the contingency – “If.” You certainly cannot construe the holy things of God in correlation to mankind’s value systems; it’s ever-evolving. HE’s not a genie in a bottle granting wishes. Instead, a righteous and reverent regard of Heaven being pleased is the only focal point for our consideration and while some would preclude this understanding as insufficient, you must ask, how has wanting things or conditions through supplication been so entirely selfish for our land without greater intercession for the inhabitants of the world under dictatorships and abject poverty lacking basic provision? Let’s not relegate this responsibility given us back to His sufficient throne. As Heaven is without parameter, earth should demand replication (*Matt.6:10).