WORD 2day: Wednesday, 27th week in Ordinary time
October 11, 2023: Jonah 4: 1-11; Luke 11: 1-4
Can we question the Lord? Is that prayerful at all? Let us think a bit: what else is prayer then?
It is not at all wrong to ask questions to the Lord. But it is important to wait for the answer. What is wrong is, we ask questions and move away from the Lord, abandon the Lord, quit the presence of the Lord. That is the problem most of us give in to.
Ask whatever question you want to, because the Lord is your Father and Mother who loves you above all. But after asking the question, remain there till the Lord answers you, as the Lord answered Jonah today. The answer will come, now, later, much later, God alone knows when, but it will come. Because God answers prayers, that is, God answers the question your raise in prayers! God will surely answer...I need to wait!
Praying can very well be asking questions, but only when I am determined to get an answer from the Lord, whatever time it takes! For God's is the kingdom, God's is the power, God's is the glory for evermore!
2 comments:
Yes Fr., I agree, but because of heavy burden and intollerence. Many of them going away from faith. Some of them leaving their lives.
The strength of faith is endurance and perseverance... and we need to encourage each other and sustain each other in this journey, as St. Paul so beautifully counsels us.
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