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Lent - Week Two 2010
By Pat Lee | March 1, 2010
Monday – March 1st, 2010
Readings: Esther 14: 1, 3-5 (found in Bibles which contain the Apocryphal books) Matthew 7:7-12
Scripture Verse: “Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and it will be opened to you” Matthew 7:7
Reflection : When some of us were younger, we may have had the experience of a mother or father opening the door of the house and calling you home for dinner. You could tell by the tone of your parent’s voice whether or not they wanted to have you come home at that very moment. As an old childhood friend once said, “My mother got very serious with the third call”.
Today Jesus gives us a look at his own prayer life. His style of prayer was the prayer of petition—asking the God he called Father to help him out. He gives us a second insight into his own prayer with his insistence on persistence. Petition plus persistence will eventually bend God’s ear. God gets serious after the third call.
Our readings today remind us of the possibilities in God’s intervention in our lives. Each of us has access to God as we make daily persistent prayer part of our daily lives. Of course prayer can be a bit frightening because many times God answers us in a way that may be different from what we thought we wanted. God sees much deeper and farther than do we. What we receive from God will be “good things” from God’s abundant wisdom rather than from our limited ideas.
We are reminded as well of the golden rule—to treat others as we would want to be treated. It is a good thing to check on how we are doing with that when we begin to pray.
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