Thursday, June 21, 2012

Reflection On Luke Chapter 11


“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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