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St. Luke 11:9-20
Jesus is teaching his disciples
about faith and the need to bring faith into practice by asking, searching and
knocking. The society then and even now is in the habit of being human and one
part of us is the part which asks, searches and knocks. But who do we ask,
where do we search and when do we knock? In today’s world it is not that we
have lost the ability to ask, search and knock but we are doing it in a way
which is different from what Jesus is talking about.
We ask self-proclaimed Guru’s, God men and women, and wait to receive
blessings from them instead of concentrating on God and what only God can give.
Going to church is to receive guidance from God through God’s servant and not
to see a person who has replaced God’s self! We are going to places and asking
diviners and prophets about what we should do in life, which course we should
take, what time we should start a business and where we can built a house. How can men and women be greater than God?
Anything that we need can be answered by God and then why are we wasting time
on people who can’t even save themselves?!
Jesus teaches us to ask God and
not just to waste time with people who are misleading the public. Jesus was
questioned by the Pharisees because he was eating into their supremacy and
putting an end to the lies they were spreading by replacing God with their
selves. The sanctity of worship places were being challenged by changing them
from places of peace to places of violence where importance of money was
increasing rather than the essence on the importance on God.
What is Jesus then trying to tell
us? If a man who has called it a day at home will help his neighbor in being
hospitable and if a father will provide for his children how much more will our
Father in heaven do for us? We are bound to be sad if we keep our faith in men.
Instead we should replace this with faith in God. If someone on earth will offer us help, God will do several times more
for us and will do so without expecting anything in return because God will always
help people as they are God’s own creation and God loves them (us).
Jesus casts out a demon from a
person who was mute. He then starts speaking. But some then said that Jesus did
it because he was associated with the demons. Jesus challenges this and says
that a kingdom cannot stand against itself. We must belong to God’s kingdom to be healed by God and be taken care
of by God because we are God’s family. We do not need magic, tricks and
hallucinations to be healed.
The passage teaches us to be with God and live a life of faith which
asks, searches and knocks at the feet of God. Do not place your trust with man made
God’s but with the God who can only do good, save human kind and usher in peace.
Amen.
