Readings: Isaiah 55.10-11 / Ps 33 / Mt from 6.7 to 15
POWER OF WORDS
We have entered the climate of Lent reminds us that "not by bread alone" that man lives, but "by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God" (Mt 4:4). The word that comes from the heart of the Lord is always "living and active" (Heb 4:12), as the prophet Isaiah is able to explain with a picture of rare beauty: "As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and there return without watering the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word goes forth from my mouth does not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that for which I sent it "(Is 50.10 to 11). This extraordinary power production comes from the fact that when God speaks there is no gap between what he says and from what he does. His words are fruitful because they contain genuine promises, because they are "facts" in advance. To succeed in this work wonders in those who receive them deemed worthy of trust (cf. 1 Thess 2:13).
Otherwise, we men are able to say and then do, and then to promise not to keep, to seduce without actually liking. So out of our mouths empty words (cf. Mt 12:36), sounds unaccompanied by any force which do not produce anything, even of which we will certainly "be accountable on Judgement Day" (12:36). Using a more biblical language, we could say that there is in us the ability to act as false prophets, making for the world and the other opaque reflection of God, do not filter that allows a glimpse of his face.
Over time Lent of the scriptures advise us to start with, first, to save words by reducing the waste of sounds that often creates confusion in the newspapers and introduces illusions soul. Beginning in our relationship with God, since "your Father knows what you need before you ask him" (6:8), ensures the Master Jesus is worth never forget that the God to whom we turn our groans knows who we are and what we're missing. We ignore it rather than its "will" may become for us here "on earth" (6.10), something that satisfies us deeply, "our daily bread" (6:11). Purifying the prayer from the excesses Minutes is a school of patience and humility. Teaches us to believe that a lot of happiness that we seek, in fact, there is already waiting somewhere. If you perceive its absence is only because our streets are still quite different from those on whom God wants us to walk.
pray to the Father in a few words means learning to stay obediently in front of her will, in the expectation that soon become our own. Confident that our desires are heard not by speaking words, but with strong words of hope. Those simple, sincere, friendly, a child naturally turns to his father. The ones that come with the knowledge that they can never go back "without effect." How does the rain. How does the snow.
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