October 08, 2015
Thursday
27th Week in Ordinary Time
1st reading: Malachi 3.13 – 4.2 Gospel: Luke 11:5-13
Jesus said to his disciples, “Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to his house in the middle of the night and says: ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine who is traveling has just arrived and I have nothing to offer him.’ Maybe your friend will answer from inside: ‘Don’t bother me now; the door is locked and my children and I are in bed, so I can’t get up and give you anything.’ But I tell you, even though he will not get up and attend to you because you are a friend, yet he will get up because you are a bother to him, and he will give you all you need.“And so I say to you, ‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened to you. For the one who asks receives, and the one who searches finds, and to him who knocks the door will be opened.“If your child asks for a fish, will you give a snake instead? And if your child asks for an egg, will you give a scorpion? Even you evil people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more then will the Father in heaven give holy spirit to those who ask him!”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
The reluctance of the character in today’s Gospel story to rise up in the middle of the night to help a friend ripened into obstinacy. From inside his house he told his friend: “Don’t bother me now; the door is locked and my children and I are in bed, so I can’t get up and give you anything.” But his obstinacy eventually gave way to his friend’s persistence. Jesus described the turning point in this fashion: “Even though he will not get up and attend to you because you are a friend, yet he will get up because you are a (disturbance) to him, and he will give you all you need”.
If you know what it is to be disturbed in the middle of the night when you are already sound asleep you will appreciate the power of persistence that brought this person to his feet to help a friend. Then Jesus assured his listeners that human persistence enjoys the same “coercive” power before God. Jesus said, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find; knock and it shall be opened unto you”.
The kind of persistence that opens God’s heart is one propelled by the dependence on God and sustained by filial confidence. Dependence makes a person persevere in his prayer before God because he has no other God to seek help from. Confidence makes a person stand before God without fear of being rejected because he knows that God is a loving Father. It is this kind of persistence that works powerfully on God. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM . Email: dan.delosangeles@gmail.com. Website: www.frdan.org.
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