Reflection for March 10, Thursday of the First Week of Lent: Matthew 7:7-12

Gospel: Matthew 7:7-12

Jesus said to his disciples: “Ask and it will be given to you; 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.  

Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asked for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asked for a fish? If you then, who are wicked, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask him.  

“Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.”

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Reflection:

Do you have a regular prayer time with God? 

You always open yourself to God’s unfathomable graces and blessings when you ask Him, when you seek Him and when you knock on His heart. These actions are signs of your humility before God and you recognize God’s superiority over anyone else in this world and you signify your need of Him.  

Those who deeply believe would eternally ask Jesus, eternally seek Jesus and eternally knock on the heart of Jesus. They will never stop even if Jesus seems to be deaf to their pleadings. Why?  This is for the reason that they have an inherent need of God because God is at the center of their universe.  

When God created us, He created us with the need to love Him yet many of us have the tendency to disregard it for the reason that we think that we can exist in this world without loving Him. But the truth of the matter is we cannot peacefully exist in this world without God.  

God is good all the time, if you ask and He doesn't give it to you yet. If you seek and you have not found it yet and if you knock and the door has not been opened for you yet. Dont give up, continue to storm the heavens with your prayers.  

Soon enough, God will grant your heart’s desire, for the key to have what you want is in not giving up no matter how hard and gloomy the road that lies ahead. – Marino J. Dasmarinas