The Coming Day

Today's Reflections

 

The Coming Day

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Jn 16:23b-28

[Jesus said to his disciples,] ²³“Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. ²⁴Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

²⁵“I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. ²⁶On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you. ²⁷For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. ²⁸I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

Reflection:

The Father himself loves you. Do you want to be assured of the Father’s love? Believe in Jesus and love him, for he says, “For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.” And when we believe in Jesus and love him, we can ask the Father anything in his name and it will be granted us. Jesus is our door, our key, and our way to life in abundance!

Jesus himself tells us to ask in his name, so that we may receive and our joy may be complete. Jesus wants us to be completely happy, make no mistake! Joy is one of the surest signs that we truly believe in and love Jesus.

A sad saint is a sorry saint indeed.