For the asking

Today’s Gospel presents us once again with our Lord’s most glorious encouragement for us to pray.

"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;
and the one who seeks, finds;
and to the one who knocks,
the door will be opened.

Which one of you would hand his son a stone
when he asked for a loaf of bread,
or a snake when he asked for a fish?

If you then, who are wicked,
know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more will your heavenly Father
give good things to those who ask him.”

Yeah, but what if your kid keeps asking for snakes?

Our Lord does not here say that we will get exactly what we ask for, but that if we ask, if we pray, we will receive good things from God – ultimately better than what we could have asked for.

But if we do not ask, if we do not pray, if we do not seek, if we do not signal our desire to move forward, then we are less likely to get anything or go anywhere.

Ask. Seek. Knock. Trust in the Lord.