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Last night, my eleven year old daughter, Morgan, and I, were laying down snuggling.  She said, ‘Dad, if you had just one wish what would it be?’ I was perplexed.  My mind went everywhere.  Selfishly I thought more money, the easy road, and the fountain of youth.  Then, reaching for nobility, I thought safety and blessing for my family, to end world hunger, to eradicate disease.

This morning I was reading John 14 & 15.  Jesus says in 15:7, ‘If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you.’ I’m certain Jesus wasn’t trying to set himself up as some holy genie.  Is it possible that Jesus is saying that if we center everything we are around Him, pursue Him through His Word, and live to glorify Him, that we can actually ask whatever we ‘wish’ and it will be given to us?  I think so.

Then what’s the catch? I’m not sure there is one.  If there is a catch, it may be that when our lives become completely Christ centered then His desires will become our desires.  When that happens our selfishness fades and we begin to ask Him for the things He is already desiring to do anyway.

After telling Morgan what I would wish for, I asked her the same question.  What was her answer?  More wishes.