When you ask anyone for anything, you risk rejection or at least disappointment. Until we ask God for something, he can’t disappoint or surprise us. We cannot build trust with God without asking. We can’t relate to God if we never ask. Without asking, God is something less than a free, relational Being. He is a machine delivering on our desires, maybe even before we become conscious of what we want. Asking is the means by which we build the relationship with God he designed us to enjoy.
