13.03.25 DOA YANG MENGUBAH: PERCAYA PADA BAPA YANG BAIK

Thursday 1st week of Lent "Mt 7:7-12" "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!" Everyone who asks receives. Everyone means everyone. And in order to explain it, Our Lord cites the example of a good father who gives his children what they need. If fathers do that on earth, Jesus teaches, how much more will your Father God give good things to those who ask Him! Have you ever prayed slowly about those words: "how much more"? But sometimes we ask God for things and either nothing changes or the situation gets worse! True. What happens to us sometimes is what Coldplay explain in the song 'Fix You': "When you try your best but you don't succeed. When you get what you want but not what you need." Sometimes people get what they want... but not what they need. God, as the best of fathers, gives His children what they need; not what they want. That's His way of 'fixing you' from the effects of original sin and when everything goes wrong. Remember when your mum wouldn't give you fizzy drinks before bed or sweets before lunch? Because she loved you, she didn't give you what you wanted, but rather what was best for you. God is not a 'vending machine' in which you insert prayers to get what you fancy. God is not even a 'grandad' who could be easily convinced to give you what you wanted. He's a Father Who loves, and therefore He only gives the best. So, our best prayer is to ask: Your Will be done, for that is the best for me, always. That's what we need to keep asking for: 'Lord, I want the best. I want what you want.' Holy Mary, my good Mother, help me to have always on my lips your words to St Gabriel: "Be it done unto me according to thy word", because asking for what God has in store for me is asking for the best!