1.20-Keep Asking, seeking and knocking on the door. The journey is the joy of life.

Matthew 7.

⁷ “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. ⁸ For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

⁹ “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? ¹¹ If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! ¹² So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Psalm 16.

Psalm 16

A miktam^[a] of David.

¹ Keep me safe, my God,

    for in you I take refuge.

² I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;

    apart from you I have no good thing.”

³ I say of the holy people who are in the land,

    “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.”

⁴ Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more.

    I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods

    or take up their names on my lips.

⁵ Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup;

    you make my lot secure.

⁶ The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;

    surely I have a delightful inheritance.

⁷ I will praise the Lord, who counsels me;

    even at night my heart instructs me.

⁸ I keep my eyes always on the Lord.

    With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

⁹ Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;

    my body also will rest secure,

¹⁰ because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead,

    nor will you let your faithful^[b] one see decay.

¹¹ You make known to me the path of life;

    you will fill me with joy in your presence,

    with eternal pleasures at your right hand.