The gospel today is the continuation of yesterday’s gospel about Jesus teaching his disciples how to pray.
He encourages us to be persistent in prayer. God hears us. He listens to us. And Jesus tells us that it is important and powerful to be persistent in praying to God. And he further continues to say that we should ask, seek and knock.
This should be taken in the right perspective and right context. We cannot pray and make God do whatever we want and pray for because he said that ask and you shall receive. We should remember that asking, seeking and knocking should be done properly, and with the proper perspective.
Prayer changes us. As we pray the Lord’ s prayer, we are slowly being transformed to be more and more like him, to be more and more what he created us to be. In the Lord’s prayer, we pray that “your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” When we pray that, we also allow his will to be done in our lives. Everyday, we slowly submit to his will and allow his will to reign in our lives. Then as he changes us, what we seek, what we ask and what we knock for changes. In the gospel it says that “the Father in heaven will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him” As we pray, we will ask his will to be done in our lives, and in the world. We will seek his kingdom, and we will find it. And we will knock at the gates of heaven and as we live our lives properly, it shall be opened eventually.
May we continuously allow God to mold, transform, and change us through prayer.
Father God,
Thank you for today. Thank you again for another reminder on prayer. Lord, I again ask that you slowly transform me. Give me a heart that would want to pray, that would always want to be in your presence. Help me strengthen my prayer life, Lord, for I know that as I do so, it will be easier for you to change me, and to do in my life what you want. Amen.
Blessed day!
In Christ,
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