Freely given?

[pud]

I have been thinking and reading over the last week of incidents where Jesus, mainly healed, but also in the incidence of Lazerus and the changing of water into wine. People asked from Jesus to fufil their needs but in most circumstances he also asked them to do something first.

In the circumstance of the wine, he asked the people to fill the jars with water.

The man next to the pool he said to stand.

The "healing" of Lazerus he said to remove the stone.

Do you think today it is also the case that Jesus would like us to do "something" or is recieving the something?

I would like to know your views on this.

[Gaurav]

Hey
This is a very interesting point; what does Jesus expect of us? I have no real answers for this but I think that Jesus can only do things for us if we ask. For example, Jesus can only answer prayer if we pray and it could therefore be argued that we must do something for Jesus to do something in return. I think that we must have faith and believe that Jesus can do something.