Our focus today is turned to prayer in both readings presented in the Lectionary for Thursday of the First Week of Lent. We see Queen Esther preparing for her unannounced audience with the King to plead for her people. She would be breaking the rule of entering without permission and she would be asking the king to spare her people, putting herself in danger of execution. Yet, she and her handmaidens fasted and prayed prostrate for a whole day (an exaggeration???), and humbling herself before God and reminding him of his omnipotence, received the help she sought to make her case and win it.
So often we give up when our prayer is not immediately answered. During Lent, when we have stepped up our prayer life, and answers seem far away, we might be tempted to wonder why we are "wasting our time...and God's" Well, the answer is, keep praying. God hears. Ask and you shall receive." (Mt 7:7). Jesus is not lying, he will grant our prayer. Let's not give up!
Bro. Rene
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