[ Today's Readings ]
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
Let us learn to ask and keep ask, to seek and continue seeking, and to knock until the door is opened. Let us follow Queen Esther who takes her own life in her hands and stakes everything on her prayer to God.
Help me, who am alone and have no help but you,
for I am taking my life in my hand.
For some reason, the closer we come to feeling like we have no one in the world to help us, the less willing we are to entrust everything to God. The more desperate things get the more we want to take everything into our own hands. We don't really believe God when he says he will answer us. Let us be so confident in the LORD that we can take our own lives in our our hands when we trust him. He loves us so much that he will not fail to answer.
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.
The more careful we are about how and what we ask the more we will actually recognize the answer.
You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions (see James 4:3).
The LORD does not always give us what we think we want. But he always responds to our desire and the true need it represents.
If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him! (see Luke 11:13)
His Holy Spirit is precisely the one who saves us from the hand of our true Enemy. He turns our mourning into gladness. He turns our sorrow to joy.
When I called, you answered me;
you built up strength within me.
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