Sunday Readings: Genesis 18.20-32; Colossians 2.12-14; Luke 11.1-13
“Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.” – Luke 11.9
To pray that God’s name be hallowed and that God’s kingdom come is to acknowledge that all barriers to love must be dissolved. Anything that separates race from race, rich from poor, gender from gender, age group from age group, Christian from non-Christian is a barrier to the holiness God wishes to share with believers. Biases have no place in the community that names God our Father.
Jesus calls us to preserve in prayer. God is more gracious that a friend who reluctantly gets up in the night to help us, but God’s graciousness does not guarantee that we get what we want. We may not receive what we ask for; we may instead discover more than we were looking for or be surprised at what’s behind the door on which we are knocking.
What are you seeking in prayer? What have you found?
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