Ask!

“For whoever asks, receives...” Luke 11:10

Many of us ask things of God. Some would say, "But God is not listening." And many people have become atheists because they ask how can a good God permit so much evil and injustice in the world? Indeed, that is a question that we can never satisfactorily answer even if we win the Ultra Lotto billion peso pot and pay every wise man to come up with his own dissertation. 

But another question is, how can a righteous and holy God even look at us, and consider us His children when we are a sinful and rebellious people? How can He forgive us for rejecting Him again and again? Is it not when a judge pardons a guilty man and sets him free, we cry out in disgust, "Corrupt!"? Why will a pure and blameless God listen and answer our prayers when we repeatedly turn away from Him?

Is it not because He sees Jesus? Jesus who took our sins, our perversities with Him on the cross. It is also Jesus who advises us to persist in our prayers until God sees His Son asking in our place! Oh Lord, how deep is Your mercy and grace! Thank You for sending Your Beloved Son to stand convicted in our place! 

WOYWW: Teach Us to Pray

Starting my painting.

"Lord, teach us to pray..." Luke 11:1

Jews are supposed to pray three times a day and they have a special prayer book called a Siddur which contains the set orders of daily prayers. Readings from the Torah, the  writings of Moses and the Nevi'im, writings of the Prophets, form part of their prayer book. So I think it is natural to conclude that the disciples had a reasonable idea of how to pray to God. But they saw something in how Jesus prayed that made them long to pray the way He did. 

They watched Jesus pray many times. They saw how close He was to the Father, and they wanted that for themselves. WE should want that for ourselves! We should always want to grow in our relationship with our Father. Brother Lawrence wrote in "The Practice of the Presence of God" that he was united with God during the day as he went about his work of cleaning the floor and washing the dishes. There are many ways to practice the presence of God in the course of our day. We just have to 'mind' He is there, and not just there during our morning or evening prayers. 

Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to grow closer to You. Teach us not to forget You when we are busy. Teach us to carve some time out of our day to be with You, and only You. You are the Governor of Galaxies, but You are also our Father. We long to be with You in heaven one day, our one true home. 

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One Thing

“Only one thing is required.” Luke 10:42

I am more of a Martha than a Mary in so many ways. Although I am seldom busy in matters of the household, I am never idle unless I am sick. These days, apart from all the work in the office, I am preparing for a talk, a workshop and I am spending time with my father. When Martha complained to Jesus about her sister Mary, He kindly reminded her, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and upset about many things; only one thing is required. Mary has chosen the better portion and she shall not be deprived of it." 

Jesus in his reminder to Martha tells us in no uncertain terms, that listening to Him is SO important. Sitting at His feet and getting to know Him and His words will produce more results than any labor we do. 

We can get so disheartened about life sometimes, maybe our work, or relationships gone bad, sickness, finances, what's happening in our country... But what can get us through any seemingly hopeless situation is not racking our brains for a solution, but prayer and reading the Word of God. I heard about this experiment with rats put in water. Some rats were in a dark room and they drowned right away. Others were in a lighted room and they kept swimming for about 72 hours more than the rats in a dark room. The difference? Hope.

Hope is not tangible. We cannot buy it anywhere. Same with peace. Same with joy. But we cannot live a blessed life without these gifts from God. Indeed to be surrounded by His favor, we need only one thing. 

Jesus' conversations with Martha and Mary have not been recorded, but we too can have our own conversations with the Lord. When we are bothered and upset about many things, Jesus calls us to have a conversation with Him. To sit at his feet. Dinner can wait. Worrying can wait. Only one thing is required. That we listen to him. That we believe. That is the only way we will see the glory of God. Yes Lord, I will listen. I believe! I want to see Your glory!

Who is My Neighbor?

"And who is my neighbor?' Luke 10:29

The story of the Good Samaritan is applicable to every day life in so many ways. It doesn't have to be a stranger lying on the road on our way to work or school or to the mall. I'm thinking it can be our office mate whose constant laughter hides her many pains, a sick father in need of some company, a brother or sister from church fighting their own demons.

The Samaritan traveler was "moved with compassion" and approached the “victim", poured "oil and wine" over his wounds. OIL and WINE. 

Oil is the symbol of the Holy Spirit, and we usually apply oil when we pray for healing. How wonderful that this man had oil with him! He was like one of the wise virgins in the story in Matthew 25! He was always prepared, always ready! This time it was to offer aid and comfort. But other times he would be ready with his oil to do what God wanted him to do. He can say like Jesus, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has ANOINTED me to preach the gospel, to HEAL the brokenhearted..."

Wine in the Bible is a necessity because of the scarcity of water, so it symbolizes sustenance and life and God's blessings. How wonderful that this Samaritan was willing to share out of his need, not his excess.

Lord, I know I fall short in so many ways. But I pray that like the Samaritan traveler, I will be ever ready to help those in need with the oil and wine You have blessed me with in my life! 

The Crucial Dad

“It is not good for man to be alone.” Genesis 2:18

Marriage was and is God’s idea. And that is why the ancient enemy attacks that holy bond between a man and a woman from every direction. I find that he reserves the most vicious offensive against men, husbands, fathers, and priests. The destroyer finds ways to pervert men’s most important and significant role in the formation of families.

Writer, researcher and teacher Scott Hahn, in one of his talks, recounted a story about his father on the first day of boot camp. The drill sergeant talked about all the weapons of destruction, and when he got to the hand grenade, he “accidentally” dropped it, and then shouted, “Run, take cover!” All the recruits scampered in fright, and the sergeant roared in laughter. “Get back here!” Scott’s father, when he spied one of his friends arrive with all the other new recruits in the next bus, told his friend in secret, “If you get Sgt. so-and-so, this is what he’s going to do.”  

His friend did get Sgt. So-and-so, and when the Sgt. dropped the grenade and everyone ran away, his friend fell over and covered the grenade! He was the only one to get a medal in boot camp! Many husbands and fathers go through their roles “faking it”, not knowing their contribution to the family is CRUCIAL. They should be more purposeful if they want the best for their family, and not just wing it. 

From a 1994 study conducted by the Swiss, one of the conclusions was that it is the religious practice of the FATHER that determines if the children will be regular churchgoers. If the father does not attend church, no matter if the mother goes to church every day, statistics show only one child in 50 will go to church regularly. If a father attends church, even if the mother does not, 66% to 75% of their children will go to church sometimes or regularly! Wow! 

Let us pray for protection over our families, our marriages, our husbands, and our children against the constant barrage of messages and images contrary to the wonderful plan of God for us! And mothers, let us not forget the example of St. Monica. Her husband Patricius was a Roman pagan, but because of her prayers, her son Augustine became a saint! 

( original painting on Bible altered with Prisma app) 

My Eyes Have Seen You

“...but my eyes have seen You.” Job 42:5

After a few days of reading the Book of Job, it’s fast becoming an unlikely favorite.   In no small measure it is because of what happened to a family in our church community yesterday, and because of my father’s poor condition. My 92 year old father needed blood transfusion again because his hemoglobin was alarmingly low, and he needed antibiotics because his WBC was also dismayingly down. The daughter of the family was hit by a jeep and thrown, and she suffered broken bones, a lacerated liver, continuous bleeding and trauma to her head. In the face of pain and suffering, we cannot help but ask God, “Why, Lord, why? Why now? Why us?” 

C.S. Lewis wrote, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, but He shouts to us in our pain.” It is true that if instead of cursing God or blaming Him, if we turn to Him in the dark seasons of our life, we will see and hear Him more clearly. If we seek His presence instead of answers, we will find peace and comfort. If we reach the end of our rope, we will find that God is there, and God is all we need. 

Job concluded after all his questions that were not answered, “I had heard about You before, but now my eyes have seen You.” We all know about God, atheists and agnostics, and those of us who grew up in a Christian home. But God wants us to know Him, really know Him, not know about Him. He has time for each of us. Isn’t that amazing? 

Astrophysicists can tell us there are a billion galaxies beyond what the human eye can see, and in each of those galaxies, there could be up to a trillion stars! God is in charge of all of that inconceivable space, and yet, and yet, He wants to have a personal, intimate relationship with each one of us! And yes, perhaps that’s why He uses the megaphone of pain to get our attention. 

Under His Wings

“Behold, I am of little account; what can I answer you?” Job 40:3

I have been meditating on the Book of Job with the Catholic readings since Monday. I don’t know if there is any verse in Job that we would cross stitch and put on our walls. Job lost his sons and daughters, his sheep, his shepherds, his camels, his servants, his health. He was only left with his grumpy wife who advised him, “Curse God and die!” 

Job replied, “You talk like a godless woman. Should we accept only good things from God and never anything bad?” Indeed, we never know what a day brings. This morning I woke up to my sister’s text asking for prayers. The daughter of a family in our community got into an accident and was in serious condition. Of course I started praying right away. I could not imagine how the parents and siblings were feeling, the desperation mingling with hope and trying, trying to trust in God and His goodness. 

Job’s friends try to comfort and guide him. “My advice to you is this: Go to God and present your case to Him. For He does great works too marvelous to understand. He performs miracles without number...For though He wounds, He also bandages. He strikes, but His hands also heal.” Job doesn’t understand and he has many questions. He is so desperate and devastated like us when we are in a dark place. 

But God stoops to Job’s level and answers his questions from a whirlwind: “Brace yourself for I have some questions for you!” Of course, Job cannot answer God’s timeless and profound questions! We too cannot answer our own questions, much less God’s. We just need to get to a place where we can trust in Him and hide under His wings.

The Bounty of the Lord

“I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13

I don’t know about you but with me it seems as if God waits until the last minute to show up. Like when I was wondering how we were going to finish our house, and there wasn’t any money left. I remember praying and praying, and I forget now what it was God showed me, but I knew I wasn’t going to sink. Even without me asking, my mom came to the rescue and said, “I have money reserved for you.” 

Then there are occasions when God comes at just the right time you just know He’s there. Like when my family was having a conference with an Organizational Development Expert and she asked me what I did the day before. If she asked me what I was doing an hour before I could not have answered because  my brain is like a sieve with holes in it. But amazingly, the day before, I wrote down ALL of my tasks, and it was long and messy and detailed, and even had the time. Now who else but God would give me the inspiration to do that?!?

Every day God shows up for me, and I see His bounty. When I read the Bible, I know the Holy Spirit is there or else I won’t be able to preach to myself, let alone to others. I know God meets me exactly where I am, with all the failures in my past, and stupidity, and messiness. I just have to make myself available. God is the only one who will accept us exactly as we are! No condemnation! That is why we can claim the good things He has for us now and in the future! 

WOYWW: God is Enough

“I could not believe that He would hearken to my words.” Job 9:16

The Book of Job is one of the most depressing in the Bible and asks the most difficult questions that atheists, agnostics and even Christians ask. Why is there so much suffering in the world when there is a loving God powerful enough to do something about it? One of the lessons of the Book of Job is that we do not so much need answers as we need God Himself. We simply do not have enough wisdom to understand everything now but one day we will. In our own journey towards Him, we just need to trust Him and know He loves us far more than we can ever imagine.

Many of us cannot grasp this kind of love, because we have been rejected so often. We cannot believe that God really, really wants to love us and get close to us, with no reservations. 

( used Prisma app to alter original photo)

I like listening to Lisa Harper. She is so funny even if she teaches some pretty hard lessons from the Bible. When she was younger she was dating a Pastor and they had been going out for a year when he invited her out for Valentine’s Day. He brought her to a really fancy restaurant. At the end of the meal, the waiter brings out a gift wrapped box from a very expensive dress shop. Lisa could hardly believe her date would buy her a thousand dollar dress! He insisted she open her gift, and when she did, she noticed the dress was a size 3. She was a size 7. When he asked that she try it on, she refused several times until she confessed, “It’s not going to fit me.”

“I know,” her date said. “But if you can go down to a size 3, I could really really fall for you.” How many of us are confident enough to laugh about a rejection like that? Many of us feel that we aren’t valued, our opinions don’t matter, we aren’t good enough, and we feel we have to fit into a “size three” before we can be accepted. 

What I know is that we cannot go through life looking for acceptance and love from imperfect people. Although, usually, our friends, family or office mates do not want to intentionally hurt us, we do get hurt, we may feel slighted, even spurned, by words they say, or even something they do. If we can only see ourselves through God’s eyes, how He made this beautiful world for each of us, how He gave us gifts to make us happy, how He thought of us from the beginning and has an awesome plan to bring us home with Him, it would be enough. God hearing us, listening to us, is enough. 

A Fighting God

“Let my prayer come before Thee...” Psalm 88:2

How many times have we felt like God was not listening to us? How many people around the world live lives of desperation, keep searching for answers and go around in circles? Sheila Walsh, the singer and bible teacher, tells the story of when she and her husband were desperate for a child, and at 40, she finally conceived. The doctor called her back to the clinic for an amniocentesis, and when the results came back, the doctor advised Sheila and her husband to terminate the pregnancy. The couple refused, and Sheila remembers sitting on a rock, beside the sea, gazing outward and talking to the child growing inside her, “I will fight for you!” And she did, through weeks of turmoil, and being attached to a fetal monitor. 

On the 35th week, the doctor called and said, “Sheila, I have something to tell you. Your amniocentesis results were put in another woman’s folder, and yours was put in hers.” With the relief came the realization that another woman received some devastating news. Sheila had been carrying her burden all those months and she thought, “Did God allow me to go through this for her because she was alone, would she have aborted her baby had she known?” Whirling in her mind was the conviction that the enemy had wanted to destroy her son, her wonderful, bright, funny, God fearing, son! 

The enemy wants to destroy us too, in any way, at any time. And that’s why we not only need to be confident in our prayers, but we need to surround ourselves with good Christian brothers and sisters who can help us, support us, guide us, encourage us, and pray for us, when we feel forsaken by God. If we can love our children so much, we should realize that God loves each one of us in a bigger, more profound way. He loves us so much He was willing to sacrifice His Son for us. He too says to each one of us, “I will fight for you!” He loves us so much, He allows us to go through our own journey, painful though it may be, just so we realize our full potential as His sons and daughters. There is no safer place for us than right next to His heart. 

Tests for Humility

“For the one who is least among all of you is the one who is the greatest.” Luke 9:48

This reminds me of a certain Congressman whose behaviour in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport has gone viral. He arrogantly refused to remove his shoes and harassed the inspector in charge by seizing his ID. Sometimes we can really go off the deep end and I am just fortunate that there was no one with a camera the time I berated a waitress in an El Nido restaurant. That would have shown that I am totally unlike Jesus who though He is God, took the form of a servant. (Philippians 2:6) If we want to be like Jesus, we should not demand what we think we deserve, but should look for ways to serve. 

This is so counter culture. Our society today rewards the arrogant, the self-centered, and the vain. Don’t the most loud mouthed athletes, and the celebrities with the biggest egos end up with the biggest pay check most of the time? We need another Mother Teresa for this generation. She wasted her life on the least of the least and it was God who gave her honor. God promises us so much if we are humble. He promises His presence, forgiveness, healing, peace, wisdom, prosperity, and yes, honor. 

We do not realize it but God tries to teach us humility every day. There’s a test for us every day. I am sorry to say that I fail a lot of times. If we see a piece of paper on the road, or at the mall, do we bend down to pick it up, or do we ignore it because someone else is paid to clean up? Harley Sy at the opening of the Mall of Asia, saw a puddle of water at the entrance of the Surplus Shop. We saw him bend down and mop it up with a rag. He did not call someone to clean it. I think that’s one of the reasons why the Sy family is super successful. That was a powerful lesson for his employees, and for me. 

Just a Cup

“Anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to Christ, will certainly not lose his reward.” Mark 9:41

This tells me that any little thing we do for others, in Jesus’ name, because he or she is our brother or sister, has a corresponding recompense. How about the mean things we do, the spiteful, selfish things we do? When we keep things for ourselves, when we do not spend time helping others? Is there also a consequence for that in the economy of eternity? 

St. Paul told the Galatians in 6:7 “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”. The Bible has a lot to say about sowing and reaping. In 2 Corinthians 9:6 we read, “Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.”

Whatsoever seeds we plant of generosity, love, forgiveness, joy, unselfishness, will grow in our hearts. That is why when we need love, we should go out and give love to others. When we are hurting, we should look for others who need a helping hand, a shoulder to cry on, a word of comfort. In the world’s eyes that is foolishness, because what the world teaches is we cannot give what we do not have. 

Jesus said in Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

I think I will take the Lord’s advice over the world’s any day! 

(Variations by the Prisma app) 

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?

“I saw you under a fig tree.” John 1:48

Does Jesus see us under a fig tree the same way he saw Nathanael under a fig tree? “Under a fig tree” was a common place for prayer especially for young, rabbinic students, so Jesus was telling Nathanael that he saw Nathanael communing with God, and that he would see “greater things”. Indeed when we bow our head to God in prayer, our will definitely be changed! 

(Thomas Annan’s photo of Dr. Livingstone)

There is a story of a beggar who was at the great David Livingstone’s funeral. He was heard muttering, “You were right, Davey, you were right!” A man asked him why he said that, and the beggar explained that when they were young, he was David Livingstone’s classmate in Scotland. One day a preacher came and told them about Jesus and Davey went forward and gave his life to Jesus. The beggar said he refused to follow.

David Livingstone went on to be a giant of a man. He lived a lot of it on his knees. When he was young, he prayed, “Send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. Sever any ties, but the ties that bind me to Your service and to your heart.” And God answered, “Lo, I am with you always, even till the end of the age.” 

Henry M. Stanley, a journalist, was contracted to find David Livingstone, after the great explorer, physician and missionary went missing in Africa for 6 years. When he found the man, he asked the famous line, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” and continued, “I am the biggest swaggering atheist on the face of the earth. Don’t convert me!” Within 4 months, Stanley was on his knees accepting Christ because of Livingstone’s compelling faith and life. 

Livingstone died on his knees, weak and worn as he was, praying with the last breath in his body. He saw many wonders in Africa, and was influential in stopping the slave trade which he abhorred. But of all the wonders he saw, I am sure none can compare with meeting Jesus face to face! 

Crossed Fingers

“There is an appointed time for everything...” Ecclesiastes 3:1

Today, saying, “Keep your fingers crossed!” may mean, “Wish me luck!”, or one does it behind one’s back to invalidate a promise. But the original meaning behind the gesture dates back to early Christianity when two people would cross their index fingers to form a cross. In the early centuries of the Catholic Church, a person would also cross their fingers to invoke the power of the cross to ask for protection from evil. It even became a custom for Christians to cross their fingers as a secret sign of the cross just as the sign of the fish was also used. 

In Ecclesiastes 3:1 we read that, “There is an appointed time for everything”. Then in Chapter 1, there is a verse which says there’s really nothing new under the sun. History merely repeats itself. (1:9) The writer of Ecclesiastes had a sad verdict about life. His conclusion is it is meaningless and a dead end which he repeats about 35 times. 

We have a choice. We may think life is pointless, and use the crossed fingers sign as a way to bring luck into our corner. OR we can be like the early Christians who knew the power of the Cross and the name of Jesus. Their life was not meaningless and they were willing to die for what they believed in. We can believe that there is an appointed time, a blessed time for everything in our lives, and that even when hard times come, God is there, on top of it all, in full control. 

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” (Ecc. 3:11)

All is Vanity

“What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?” Ecc. 1:3

I am sure all of us know or know of some people who work hard and cunningly to acquire money and power. There has been some Congressmen proposing a P69.4 billion budget cut for education facilities like classrooms, and P30.3 billion cut for the Dept. Of Health facilities enhancement program. Meanwhile, the House approved P2.5 billion, a 12% increase for the President’s confidential and intelligence funds which does not require any accounting. It is 400% higher than the confidential and intelligence funds of 2016. Enough said. 

The writer of the Book of Ecclesiastes identifies himself as a King in Jerusalem who searched for understanding and wisdom. He built many beautiful palaces, and had more slaves, treasure, and concubines than many kings combined. “I had everything a man could desire! Anything I wanted, I took!” he claimed. 

“I did not restrain myself from any joy...but as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless. It was like chasing the wind,” this mighty King wrote in Ecclesiastes 2:10-11. Ecclesiastes is a journal, a diary of a man who accomplished much, experienced almost everything the world could offer during his time. From the vantage point of his privileged life, he found that one could not enjoy life apart from God. 

“What do people really get for all their hard work?” he pondered. People may work hard to accumulate wealth but at the end of our lives, we cannot bring anything more than a poor man may take with him. We can have many trophies, recommendations, and streets in our name, but when we lie on our deathbed, none of that matters if we are not right with God. 

Although as the writer of Ecclesiastes says, “Vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!”, we know that what God values is not vanity. When we die, we will find that faith, truth and love remain, and the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) 

WOYWW: He is No Fool

From yesterday’s painting. I enjoyed myself so much, I started another one!

"...take nothing for the journey..." Luke 9:3

When St. Francis of Assisi heard the gospel on taking nothing for the journey on Feb. 24, 1208, he was overjoyed. I can't imagine anyone being overjoyed at Jesus' instructions to the twelve apostles to go out preaching but to take nothing, not even food! But Saint Francis had been feeling the pull of God in dreams and visions, and he felt that this was the clear direction he had been seeking. Although he had been a rich young man, with a taste for luxurious clothes and good food, he had renounced his possessions to the dismay of his father, and embarked on begging for food and for stones to rebuild a small church.

Like Saint Francis, we too are pilgrims on a journey. We take different paths, but we go to the same God. We will all learn eventually that we need to take nothing on our journey. Everything will be left behind. Some learn this later than others. I have to confess that I am accumulating many things on my pilgrimage. I do not travel light. But sometimes a glimpse of someone dying, leaving with nothing, leaving the same way we all came to earth, gives me pause to think. Truly I need to learn to relinquish my hold on possessions, to make my baggage lighter and lighter.

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose." (Jim Elliot, from his diary, Oct. 28, 1949)

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Hearts for Home Thursday

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Glimpses of His Beauty

Blessings!

Patsy