Thursday of the First Week of Lent - March 5
Esther 12:14-16, 23-25 Matthew 7:7-12
In today’s First Reading, Queen Esther, full of what I like to call “holy confidence” bears the responsibility of interceding for the lives of her people. She boldly implores the God of her youth to give her “persuasive words” so that tragedy may be averted. If you were to continue with this scripture passage in your bible, (and I strongly encourage you to do just that because it is a great story!) you would learn that God does indeed hear and answer her prayer. Esther has a relationship with God, she prays with holy confi dence in God’s power to save, and God does.
Three times today the responsorial psalm resounds, “Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me”! Each time we repeat it a bit louder, a bit bolder, filling our souls with holy confi dence in God’s power to save us, to strengthen us, to console us.
Lastly, filled with love for his disciples and for us, Jesus implores us in the gospel to ASK, SEEK, and KNOCK with holy confi dence so that He can lavish his blessings upon us. I don’t know about you, but in my own life this invitation has not come along very often…if ever. Yet, Jesus is telling us, “Here it is, you need only ask, seek, and knock and I will provide.” How blessed we are to have such a generous Father!
As we begin our Lenten journey may we be reminded throughout these scripture passages today of Our Lord’s words to us; to ask, to seek, and to knock always fi lled with holy confi dence in a loving Father who wants to give his children all good things!
Q: Let us pray, “Lord, today I ask for your help with… Lord, today I seek…”
In today’s First Reading, Queen Esther, full of what I like to call “holy confidence” bears the responsibility of interceding for the lives of her people. She boldly implores the God of her youth to give her “persuasive words” so that tragedy may be averted. If you were to continue with this scripture passage in your bible, (and I strongly encourage you to do just that because it is a great story!) you would learn that God does indeed hear and answer her prayer. Esther has a relationship with God, she prays with holy confi dence in God’s power to save, and God does.
Three times today the responsorial psalm resounds, “Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me”! Each time we repeat it a bit louder, a bit bolder, filling our souls with holy confi dence in God’s power to save us, to strengthen us, to console us.
Lastly, filled with love for his disciples and for us, Jesus implores us in the gospel to ASK, SEEK, and KNOCK with holy confi dence so that He can lavish his blessings upon us. I don’t know about you, but in my own life this invitation has not come along very often…if ever. Yet, Jesus is telling us, “Here it is, you need only ask, seek, and knock and I will provide.” How blessed we are to have such a generous Father!
As we begin our Lenten journey may we be reminded throughout these scripture passages today of Our Lord’s words to us; to ask, to seek, and to knock always fi lled with holy confi dence in a loving Father who wants to give his children all good things!
Q: Let us pray, “Lord, today I ask for your help with… Lord, today I seek…”
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