Supplying the Spirit

 WORD 2day: Thursday, 27th week in Ordinary time

October 8, 2020: Gal 3: 1-5; Lk 11: 5-13

One who supplies the Spirit to you: that is an identity that the Word reveals of God, in both the readings today (Gal 3:5; Lk 11:13). 'To supply the Spirit'...what would that mean? It would mean that we are given the assurance of the continued presence of the Lord perennially. 'The Spirit is the mark of God's ownership on us', St. Paul would declare elsewhere(cf Eph 1:13). 

The Spirit is God's definition of our identity, our call and the meaning of our life. We are called to be sons and daughters in the Spirit and the Spirit does not leave us even a moment, because it us our very being. In the Spirit, do we live, move and have our being (Acts 17:28). We are accompanied all through - and all that we need to do is, become aware of it, take advantage of it, rejoice in it and share the fruits of it with everyone around! 

On the other hand, when doubts assail us, when we face the risk of falling into temptations and when we do fall in those, when we lax into lower standards of human moral living, give into the vile pressures of the evil one and the vices of the distraught world, we are shunning the Spirit of the Lord. We are failing to take advantage of it, we are letting great fruits go waste, we are sitting on a treasure box and begging for stranded shekels! 

All our life, we are called to remember our identity and never lose sight of it. We are challenged to feel the truth right within us, the image and likeness what we possess and the great mission each of us has in life - grow into that image, following the fullness revealed in Christ, through the Spirit. In this the act of prayer comes as an act of becoming aware, taking advantage of the great treasures within - it is asking, knocking and seeking, something that is always so close to us.

Asking, knocking, seeking are acts of faith, they are not acts of some desperate effort to get something by all means. They are acts of faith by which we live our convictions that, even before asking the Lord knows my needs. To knock is to surrender oneself totally, come what may. And to seek is not a call to seek in vain or in all-emptiness but to seek the person who lives within us, who dwell within us, who makes us the dwelling places of God (cf 1 Cor 3:16; 6:19).Once we possess the Spirit, we would need nothing: Seek ye first the Reign of God, and everything will be given unto you.