Breaking the Word

"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. Which one of you would hand his son a stone when he asks for a loaf of bread, or a snake when he asks for a fish? 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. "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets.  (Mt 7:7-12)

 

 

Do we receive all that we ask from God? This is the mystery of all prayers. What Jesus tells us here is that we should relate to God as children to their father. The attitude should be so that we go to him as children go to their father. Father always will want to give to his children what they ask for and what they need. It is not selfish to ask God for things that we need. It is the natural thing that children are supposed to do with parents.

 

There are times in which our prayers have not worked. Yes prayer is a mystery. It is difficult to understand/answer this when what we ask for true and they are legitimate yet we do not receive it. We shall fully understand this only when we see God face to face.

 

What Jesus asks us is to treat God as Father and make him know how things are with us. We have to ask, seek, and knock. We will receive our bread and fish. God will never let us down. This is the belief of the Bible and this is what Jesus has lived in this world and this is what he wants his followers to believe in. The followers should reflect this God in their lives: "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.”

 

While still more people gathered in the crowd, he said to them, "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the Wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here. At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here.  (Lk 11:29-32)

 

 

This generation is an evil generation because it is seeking for a sign. The people whom Jesus is condemning are the people of Israel who are the descendants of Abraham. He was a man of faith. He believed in God and he was justified for the same. These people do not believe in Jesus in stead they are asking for proofs and signs.

 

Ninevites were not the descendants of Israel and yet when Jonah preached tot hem they did not demand for a sign. They accepted his preaching and converted themselves and were saved. Jonah did not do any signs and wonders for the people to believe; he only preached to them. Non Jewish people (in a sense non believing people) accepted the preaching.

 

‘Someone greater than Solomon is here’. Jesus presents himself as greater than the wise man of history. People longed to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Greater wisdom is in Jesus. Jonah was a prophet. Prophet of all the prophets was Jesus. Jesus was the prophet and he was the wisdom.