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Thursday 10 October 2024

Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

Word for today
The Gospel of Luke 11:5-13

If (not)

It is written: And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. This is the procedure Jesus offers us to live in peace in full well-being, wealth, health, harmony and happy. Jesus reveals the truth, thus revealing how life works and how all energies regulating and nourishing it work; He reveals the wonderful procedure to be happy, the sure procedure for man to achieve everything that he desires, and He does it by placing it, at the same time, as the dominant law, the indispensable procedure. Man is free to use or not to use this procedure, but if the procedure is not used, man cannot be happy nor can he achieve what he desires.
Jesus specifies, nevertheless, that this procedure does not work with ifs, it is not one of many alternatives, it is not a possible opportunity, a potential point of view. The procedure He reveals does not belong to the category of abstract forecasts or likely conjectures, it does not know perhapses or maybes, but most of all it does not know ifs. Jesus does not say if you will ask, you shall be given, if you seek you will find, if you knock, the door will be opened to you. Instead He says: And I tell you, ask and you will receive; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Jesus presents His procedure as a dominant law that commands, arranges and regulates everything and not as one of many possible options. Jesus is without ifs, He does not know the stuttering of ifs. Jesus reveals that all life, all power, beauty and intelligence of life created by God revolves around its energy generator which is asking, seeking, knocking. Asking, seeking, knocking is the procedure. Asking, seeking, knocking always, with all one's force, but never forcing. Asking, seeking, knocking always, with all one's love, without attachments. Asking, seeking, knocking always, with all one's passion, without any expectations. Asking, seeking, knocking always, with all the power of one's desire and faith, without any doubts, and without pushing, compelling, forcing, pressuring, invading, hurrying; then the Paraclete Spirit will come with endless gifts giving everything to everyone.