Jesus said to
his disciples: “Suppose one of you has a friend to whom he goes at midnight and
says, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread, for a friend of mine has arrived
at my house from a journey and I have nothing to offer him,’ and he says in
reply from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been locked and my
children and I are already in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’ I
tell you, if he does not get up to give him the loaves because of their
friendship, he will get up to give him whatever he needs because of his
persistence.
“And I tell
you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will
be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks,
finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. What father among
you would hand his son a snake when he asks for a fish? Or hand him a scorpion
when he asks for an egg? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good
gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask him?”
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Reflection:
Isn’t God all
knowing? Doesn’t He read our mind? So why do we need to badger Him in prayer
about our needs? God is all knowing and God reads our minds but we still need
to persistently let Him know what we want Him to do for us. Why? For the simple
reason that it’s through our persistence that we develop deep friendship with
Him. It’s through our persistent prayer that we obtain the grace to get to know
Jesus much deeper.
What if we
would not persist? We miss the chance to know Jesus more deeply and we
miss the opportunity to develop a much deeper friendship with Him. Take
for example our Sunday Mass obligation, what would happen to us if we wouldn’t
keep on attending it every Sunday? We miss the chance to know Jesus deeply, we
miss the chance to be showered by His many blessing. And we miss the
opportunity to grow in faith and the like.
Yes, God
knows everything about us already but we still need to be persistent before
Him. For this is where He would know how deep is our love for Him. When we
don’t give up on Jesus and when we continue to let Him know that we always
hunger for Him. Surely Jesus will not be deaf and blind to our petitions before
Him.
Surely Jesus
will smile at us and tell us: Here it is that you want I’m giving it to you now
because you did not give up. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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