Esther, 14, 1.3-5.12-14;
Sal 137;
Mt 7, 7-12
'Ask and you shall receive, seek and find , knock and it shall be opened. " So Jesus tells us we must pray. With trust, with God's wishes, with humility. God always hears us. It's the good Father who always listens to their children and give us the best. Father is always good from heaven give good things to those who ask him. So is his love.
whole Word of God proclaimed today is an invitation to pray and pray with confidence. The first reading gives us a beautiful testimony to the prayer of Queen Esther. The Persian king had ordered, at the instigation of Haman to exterminate all Jews. Esther was Jewish, and Mordecai reminds her that even if the queen will not be exempted from that destruction, if not intercede with the king. But before the king could not be present without being called. But she is ready for anything, hence his prayer.
has called on the compatriots through Mordecai to fast and pray to the Lord. She does the same and what we hear is the prayer of Queen Esther. A beautiful prayer full of confidence and we can model for our prayer. Go humbly to the Lord with confidence but remember the wonderful works that the Lord has done for his people throughout history. Now asks the Lord to continue to display and its people. Calls strength to face the lion. 'Put in my mouth a successful speech when the lion has to talk to us ... deliver us with thine hand, and me, I have no other help, protect you, Lord, you know everything. " is asking for the grace of God is to ask God's wisdom to know how to act, is feeling its strength because God puts all his trust.
could rightly exclaim the psalm: 'When I called, you hear me, Lord,' . We are confident that God listens to us, is we have experienced many times the Lord has heard our prayer time with confidence and humility, we turn to Him "I thank you with all my heart ... ' concludes.
Everything comes to be confirmed with the words of Jesus that teaches us and invites us to pray to the Lord . 'It will give you ... find ... it will be opened, "says Jesus . Jesus gave his word, puts up security for us. And elsewhere in the gospel tell us that pray for us, but also that whatever we ask the Father in his name, we will be granted.
But, if I may, I will look for on the three words, the three verbs that Jesus used to tell us we have to pray, ask, seek and knock. We can say, yes, all three are as one in reference to prayer. But we can briefly look at separately.
'Ask and you shall receive' tells us first. We turn to God from our poverty, in our weakness, from our smallness, knowing that the Lord have it all. And pray for our needs, but not only for our material needs, because we need your help on problems or difficulties, or ask for others, we ask his grace and strength and also ask your forgiveness. I know that normally join prayer and petition as if the only prayer.
But Jesus tells us more: 'seek and find. " What do we want? Is not it somehow also a search for God? We know God, we want to see him. Seek God and seek His will, whatever he says or wants from us. Seek in our doubts or questions that we face so many times in life within us. We look for a light or looking for a meaning. We seek your grace, forgiveness, salvation. We seek to live their lives. Seeking God, and He will let us find.
'Knock and it shall be opened' , he says finally. Knocked at the door of someone's house because we want to go and be. Do not go often to visit someone, call your door, not because you're going to ask something, but simply to visit, to be with that person to speak? Jesus invites us to call. He wants us to enter We want to be with Him with God, to feel in his presence, rejoice in your presence. Some friends who want to meet and they are just next to each other, talk and talk, things will, or be silent, but they are. Would not that be a form of our prayer? Call to be with God and the Lord opened for us to be with Him
But it is more so in this aspect would have to say because we remember what we said in the Apocalypse: 'I'm your door and knock ... ' the Lord is also calling on our door and expects us to open up, because he also wants to be with us. If we unite these two calls, which hermosoo encounter with the Lord is available in our prayers.
'Ask and you shall receive, seek and find, knock and it shall be opened' So be our prayer.
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