THE LORD’S PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
(Mt 6:9-13)
Today’s gospel reading speaks to us the importance of Prayer. Prayer is the breath and food of our spiritual journey. When we want to travel to some where we always prepare ourselves and make sure that the things which are needed for the journey. Same way we have to make sure that our spiritual journey is also well prepared. To prepare ourselves for the spiritual journey ‘The Lord’s Prayer is the best one.
This prayer was taught by Jesus Himself. This prayer brings into us a kind of personal relationship with God. By this prayer we are able to call God as our Father. Until this prayer was taught by Jesus the concept of the Lord was one who stays away from the people. But by calling him Our Father He becomes very near to us. This intimate union is the prayer. As children of Him our prime duty is to glorify Him.
Today if we look into the world we can see only people looking for a world of theirs to come. But as a Christian who wants to follow Christ we have to look for his kingdom. His kingdom is a place of joy, peace, equality, justice and so on. Now the time has come to make His kingdom here on earth. The Lenten season is a time to build up His kingdom. No one can start to build some thing without having the material that are necessary for the house, same way we have to well equipped to build His kingdom. For this reason we have to be people who practice all the kingdom values.
We also pray that Thy Will be done. But how far we are able to look for His Will. As human beings we may always turn into our ‘will’ to be done and proclaim that it is God’s Will. Now as the evangelist says it is time to repent from our own self motivate wills to the Will of Him who created us in His own image to be with Him and to do His Will.
Food is for health, but it has got a limit. The more we eat it un- necessarily the less it help us to have a good health instead it may would give us a weak and ill healthy body. So build up a nature of sharing with the needy. We are assured of our daily food from Him, but He also has given us more in order that we may be His children who share and live in harmony. But His children are fighting to grab as much as possible from the other. Let turn and look into our own self and examine whether I am able to live a life of harmony and peace, if not I have something within my heart that prevents me from His love.
Forgiveness is one of the greatest gift and virtue that the Lord has given t us to live a life of peace and harmony. This virtue does not come to us naturally, but rather it comes to us by daily practicing it in our day today life. It is easy to say that you have to forgive others, but when it comes into our own life we feel its difficulty. Forgiveness always asks us to forget the hurting incidents that happened in our life. But we cannot forget the experience that happened in our life. So we remain always with a feeling of anger towards other fellow beings. But Christ taught us the virtue of forgiveness through His life that he forgave the people who persecuted and crucified Him on the cross. So that the prayer asks us to build up a mentality of mercy towards the other.
Temptation is the partner of human beings. We can never avoid temptations from our life, but we have got the power to resist the temptations that which, may take us away from Him .If a man is not tempted by any thing then he/she is not human. Let us try to turn our temptation a positive one from Him so that we may be strong in faith to Him.
Prayer: Lord Jesus helps me to understand your Will and bless me to be faithful to you until I come –back to You. Let also allow growing the seed of ‘Word’ in me to find what You want of me.
(Mt 6:9-13)
Today’s gospel reading speaks to us the importance of Prayer. Prayer is the breath and food of our spiritual journey. When we want to travel to some where we always prepare ourselves and make sure that the things which are needed for the journey. Same way we have to make sure that our spiritual journey is also well prepared. To prepare ourselves for the spiritual journey ‘The Lord’s Prayer is the best one.
This prayer was taught by Jesus Himself. This prayer brings into us a kind of personal relationship with God. By this prayer we are able to call God as our Father. Until this prayer was taught by Jesus the concept of the Lord was one who stays away from the people. But by calling him Our Father He becomes very near to us. This intimate union is the prayer. As children of Him our prime duty is to glorify Him.
Today if we look into the world we can see only people looking for a world of theirs to come. But as a Christian who wants to follow Christ we have to look for his kingdom. His kingdom is a place of joy, peace, equality, justice and so on. Now the time has come to make His kingdom here on earth. The Lenten season is a time to build up His kingdom. No one can start to build some thing without having the material that are necessary for the house, same way we have to well equipped to build His kingdom. For this reason we have to be people who practice all the kingdom values.
We also pray that Thy Will be done. But how far we are able to look for His Will. As human beings we may always turn into our ‘will’ to be done and proclaim that it is God’s Will. Now as the evangelist says it is time to repent from our own self motivate wills to the Will of Him who created us in His own image to be with Him and to do His Will.
Food is for health, but it has got a limit. The more we eat it un- necessarily the less it help us to have a good health instead it may would give us a weak and ill healthy body. So build up a nature of sharing with the needy. We are assured of our daily food from Him, but He also has given us more in order that we may be His children who share and live in harmony. But His children are fighting to grab as much as possible from the other. Let turn and look into our own self and examine whether I am able to live a life of harmony and peace, if not I have something within my heart that prevents me from His love.
Forgiveness is one of the greatest gift and virtue that the Lord has given t us to live a life of peace and harmony. This virtue does not come to us naturally, but rather it comes to us by daily practicing it in our day today life. It is easy to say that you have to forgive others, but when it comes into our own life we feel its difficulty. Forgiveness always asks us to forget the hurting incidents that happened in our life. But we cannot forget the experience that happened in our life. So we remain always with a feeling of anger towards other fellow beings. But Christ taught us the virtue of forgiveness through His life that he forgave the people who persecuted and crucified Him on the cross. So that the prayer asks us to build up a mentality of mercy towards the other.
Temptation is the partner of human beings. We can never avoid temptations from our life, but we have got the power to resist the temptations that which, may take us away from Him .If a man is not tempted by any thing then he/she is not human. Let us try to turn our temptation a positive one from Him so that we may be strong in faith to Him.
Prayer: Lord Jesus helps me to understand your Will and bless me to be faithful to you until I come –back to You. Let also allow growing the seed of ‘Word’ in me to find what You want of me.
From
Bro. Chittilapilly Vinod Thomas SCJ.
THIRD YEAR THEOLOGY STUDENT.
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