For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” vs. 10
Luke 11:5-13
Jesus doesn’t seem to have any problems with what we might call “unanswered prayer.” In his estimation, that’s virtually unthinkable. Oh, he’s certainly aware of what it’s like to imagine that somehow God has abandoned us or gone on vacation. He knows what those feelings are like. But he knows something about God that we sometimes forget. It’s impossible for God to abandon us because God is as close to us as our breath or the beat of our heart! If we’re alive God is near, and we cannot fail to receive when we ask, or find when we search, or have the door opened when we knock. Not only does God give good gifts to us, but God freely showers upon us the Holy Spirit, the most precious gift of all. And the Holy Spirit fills our hearts with God’s presence and daily leads us into lives of compassionate love and abundant service. And our prayers are the accompanying cloud of connection that insure our daily peace and joy. They don’t require words, and they don’t require a particular place. Of course, those things certainly don’t hurt, but Paul told believers to pray without ceasing, maintaining that this constancy was the key to our daily life in Christ.
Thought for the Day: What value is a regular time and place for prayer?
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