Gospel of Luke 11:9-13
“So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for[e] a fish, will give a snake instead of a fish? 12 Or if the child asks for an egg, will give a scorpion? 13 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit[f] to those who ask him!”
Meditation from Jesus:
My daughter, I spent My life on earth revealing to mankind My Father’s love and goodness. He only desires to give you good things, just like you, with your children and grandchildren. Yet, God’s goodness expands beyond time and space, and His goodness at times cannot be understood nor received by His children. What did I tell My apostles before departing from this world? That I must go so that they can receive the Holy Spirit (Jn 16:7). The Holy Spirit is the greatest gift given to mankind through Me, God’s only begotten Son. The Holy Spirit is the love and goodness of the Father and the Son. Through the Holy Spirit, the Father gave you everything. When you possess the Holy Spirit, you possess the Father and the Son. Through this most generous gift, the Holy Spirit, you always have Me; You are never alone. At your disposal is His counsel, help, guidance, consolation, companionship, wisdom, and an endless list of gifts, for He is the Third Person of the Trinity.
My words in the Gospel reveal a mystery of God’s love– to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, a soul must ask, seek, and knock at the door of My Sacred Heart.
But now, my little one, I reveal to you another sorrow of My Sacred Heart. The Heart of our Father is burdened with the pleas of so many of His children. Just as you are burdened when your children and grandchildren constantly seek, ask, and insist on receiving things that are not good for them, the Father, too, grieves the pettiness of His children when the Father desires to give you the fullness of the Spirit, through Me, His Son. It is only through this gift that you will be satisfied, content, and happy on earth.
Can you now, My little one, enter into My Sacred Heart in the Tabernacle and collect My tears for the pettiness of God’s children, and suffer as one heart with Me, remaining in My groans?
When Jesus says that the Father is burdened, I understand that Abba Father is love. He desires to lavish me, His little daughter, with the fullness of the Holy Spirit through His Son, and yet I, in my misery, close the door of my heart to receive the outpouring of my Father’s love, and instead, I desire the lesser gifts. It’s not that asking for things like a job, health, healing, a house, or food is inherently bad; rather, Jesus is revealing in this scripture passage what we should be asking for, for when we possess the Holy Spirit, we possess all.
