Matthew 7:7
"Knock and the door will be opened to you."
Knocking on doors has gone out of style. When was the last time I actually knocked on someone's front door? Most of the time, when I get to someone's home, I'll call that person or send her a text message that reads "I'm here!"
But something about the very act of knocking communicates a disposition: I am waiting and have made myself available... yet I have done all that I can do. Once I've knocked on someone's front door, I can do no more: I simply must wait for the response of the one inside.
Perhaps this is why Jesus uses this image of knocking on a door when teaching about prayer: many times, prayer is simply presenting ourselves before God, "knocking on the door" by voicing our need before Him, and then simply waiting for Him. This actually takes a great amount of courage: to trust that once I have "knocked" on God's door in prayerful petition, He will listen to my knocking and answer it accordingly.
Lord, help me to rest in the peace of knowing that by simply "knocking on your door" I have done all that you have asked of me in prayer.
Get to know our seminarians! Today's reflection was written by:
Deacon Connor Penn, Fourth Theology
Home parish: Corpus Christi, Temple Terrace
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