If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
"If you then, who are evil..." It's a strange compliment Jesus pays here, almost backhanded. He's not being cynical about parents so much as realistic — even flawed people, people who lose their patience and get things wrong, still generally know how to hand their kid something good when it's asked for.
That's His starting point, not His conclusion. If broken people manage that much, He says, imagine what a Father who isn't broken is capable of. It's an argument from the lesser to the greater — if the leaky, imperfect version of fatherly love still works, the perfect version isn't a smaller thing. It's vastly more.
Maybe your own experience of being given good things by a parent was patchy, or maybe it was generous. Either way, this verse is asking you to imagine upward from whatever you know — not to project your father onto God, but to let this comparison stretch your sense of what generosity might actually look like at its source.
If you've never actually asked God for anything, this verse suggests that might be worth trying, honestly and without a script.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.