Thursday of week 27 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Luke 11:5-13
“persistence will be enough to make him get up and give his friend all he wants”. This is such a great promise by Jesus in the context of His teaching on prayer. One of the most important things in prayer is persistence. Keep praying even though we don’t see any results. Keep praying even though we don’t see any change. Keep praying even though things apparently are getting worse. Keep praying even though the contrary happened. Because of these words of Jesus: “persistence will be enough to make him get up and give his friend all he wants”. Persistence will be enough not only to get answers but all we want. This faith in the words of Jesus must motivate our prayer life. This persistence is not only about intercessory prayers or prayer for some needs. But this is more about the daily prayers, this is about our relationship with God. As we read in the gospel, “Suppose one of you has a friend and goes to him in the middle of the night to say”. We go in the middle of the night to a friend when we need something. We go to a friend. Prayer is like going to a friend. Prayer is persisting in this friendship. Let’s reflect: How much persistent am I in my prayers?
Don Giorgio