Mt 7:7-12
Some of us may take for granted this promise, ‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.’ Rather than looking at this promise by itself, it must come with what follows ‘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.’ What we ask for may not be good gifts which may in fact pull us away from God in the long run. Can God grant us the desire to win more money at Casino, help us to have relationship with married people, fulfil our curse on others who have wronged us for us, etc.? Are these even good gifts to begin with? Do they lead us to live life to the fullest in Love? No. Before we even confront the priests with, ‘I thought in the bible, it has been mentioned,” Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”’, we should discern if what we are asking for will open the doors to heaven or to hell. Do they just satisfy our ever hungry and increasing appetite for things and people that are not helping us to grow in Love but leading us to be greedy and destroy our relationships with God and others or are we asking God to open the doors that lead us to the narrow gate to heaven, living life to the fullest even here in the world with deep joy within with the others and God?
With Love,
Elena
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