“They said to Him, “Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory.” But Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” (Mark 10:37-38)
Do you know what you are asking the Lord? Is it driven by pride or one of the vices like greed or envy? I suspect we often do not know what we are asking. We think that if the Lord loves us, He will give us what the world calls good things. The Lord does love us, and He will give what is good; but do we even know what is good for us? Ask, but trust the Lord in and through all things.
Lord, You drank from the cup of suffering and were immersed in death. This world is filled with suffering, and everyone dies the mortal death. I sometimes ask for what can never be. I sometimes want what never should be. Help me even in my asking so that I seek Your will, and not my own. I do not even know what is truly good, right, or even fitting. Help me, Lord, through all that this life brings.
Dear Lord Jesus, I often do not know what I am asking. I ask from a selfish motive, and You have told me that I do not receive because I ask with the wrong motive. Lead me so that I ask with the right motive. Help me to understand that what will come will come in my life, but that You are with me always no matter what comes. Lead me to live humbly with what You give me. Amen.
