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- | Friday, Sept 8, 2017. | + | Friday, Sept 8, 2017. |
+ | amazing. Jesus describes the relationship between his heavenly father and himself. And he invites | ||
+ | all humans to enter the same type of relationship: | ||
+ | truth and honesty! | ||
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- | ** Our Concerns ...** | + | |
+ | ** Invitation to come ...** | ||
+ | Within the relationship to God, we are invited to bring him our needs. We are invited to ask, and we | ||
+ | are promised to be given. We are invited to knock at his door, and he will let us in. We are invited | ||
+ | to search him, and we will find! | ||
+ | Let us listen to the words as reported by the gospel of Matthew, chapter 7: | ||
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- | 30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? 31 Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the Gentiles | + | 7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened |
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- | ** A different Game ...** | + | We all know how it is to have a good friend. We know that our friend will help us, when we ask him. We |
+ | would never misuse him or her, we would only ask if it is needed. But we know our friend would do! | ||
+ | Jesus desribes the relationship of the people who have come to the Lord in these terms. It is like a | ||
+ | fantastic friendship. God is good, he whants the best things for us. He is honest, he is full of | ||
+ | love. He is trustworthy. He is the eternal creator, full of light, he is love and light himself! We | ||
+ | are invited to come. When we knock, seriously search him, we will find. And we will be let in. He | ||
+ | has prepared a room for you. | ||
+ | Jesus words establish a new kind of life. His words establish sustainable relationships, | ||
+ | truth, on support, on honesty and love. Nothing less leads to eternal life! Nothing less would be a | ||
+ | mode and environment, | ||
+ | experience the presence and love of God, to ask and to be given, so search and to find! | ||
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