Gospel: John
16:23b-28
Jesus
said to his disciples: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father
in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask
and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
“I have
told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer
speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. On that
day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father
for you. For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have
come to believe that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into
the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”
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Reflection:
A young
man was asking Jesus to make him rich, so he prayed and asked. After three
months of asking and praying the man never received his prayer petitions. He
was deeply puzzled why he has not received what he wanted.
Until he had a dream wherein Jesus told him
this, “You did not receive what you prayed for because you just relaxed in your
house you never exerted effort to realize what you want. So the next day the
young man prayed once again and he coupled his prayers with actions and after a
period of time he was able to achieve what he was asking from Jesus.
Our
petitions for Jesus must not end with our vocal prayers only. We must see to it
that we follow it up with actions. For example, we desire something, of course
we have to pray and it must not end with our prayers. We must work very hard to
realize what we are praying for.
Jesus
will generously help us achieve what we want to happen in our lives for as long
as we will exert every ounce of effort to have it. In other words it must
always be prayers with actions and never prayers alone. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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