“Father,
hallowed be your name” !
Reflection
On Luke Chapter 11
Reading this chapter, I
have noted some incredible insights and wisdom that Jesus applied to engage in
conversations he had with one of his disciples, crowds increased in numbers to see
miraculous signs performed by Jesus and also the Pharisee who invited him to
eat with him and others who oppose him fiercely.
Luke 11: 1 "Lord,
teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples."
The question asked by one
of the disciples seemed to be sincere and kind. I have found myself asking the
same question before out of a desire to want to spent time with God and engage
in conversations with him. This is what Jesus replied to the disciple: when you
pray, say: “Father, hallowed be your
name, your kingdom come (Luke 11:2).
Interestingly enough Jesus didn’t say too much about how he need to pray and
what define words or languages he had to say in order to learn how to pray. He
put it in a simple way as a guide line about how the disciple can pray and what
he need to consider first and be mindful about things he had to say when he
pray. May only the Will of God be up on our life and through his help may each of
us come to understand what this means in a deeper way not just as a merely word
and accept the will!
And also I like to mention
few things in I learned from these two verses of Luke (Luke 11:9-10). "So I say to you: 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; he who seeks
finds; and to him who knocks, the door
will be opened.
This “him” is us people!
That who says “I” is the Lord!
Yours and mine action is required! And faith!
- I remember pastor say this in one of the Sunday fellowship we had a while ago and I hope not to forget it ever: “Stop wanting to have a wishful life!”
This is what Jesus has
said to us in Luke 11: 11-12Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish,
will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?
So shall we keep doubting him with what we wanted to trust him? I will leave
that for all of us to think about it deeply and pray (depending) on the holy
sprit to guide us and tell us what we need to say. May God bless us all!
"Blessed rather are those who hear the
word of God and obey it." Luke 11:28
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