Dailies: Put into my heart the right questions

Georges de la Tour - Magdalen with the smoking flame c. 1640

This morning I read this daily meditation by Richard Rohr:

Before you open the Gospels, ask each time, What is the question that Jesus is trying to answer? Then say, Lord, put in my heart those questions. Make me ask the right questions. Jesus answers people who are asking the right questions. If the Gospel is not an answer to the world anymore, it’s perhaps because the world is not asking the right questions. The world is saying, How can I be making $40,000 by the time I’m forty? Our country is obsessed with that question. Yet Jesus says it’s a false question. He in fact says it’s an utter lie, and it’s all going to pass away.

Unless you move deeper into asking his questions, you will always get the wrong answer – especially wrong because it will look religious.

Put into my heart the right questions Lord. And please, have patience, for I think I tend to ask the false ones. The ones that’s all about me. I have the feeling that if I open myself up so that you give me the questions, without a doubt we’ll get to me, but through the right door. Deliver me from evil, Lord. That subtle evil within myself that I can dress in such a way that it can pass as religion. Deliver me from that. Is that too much to ask? I’m asking Lord. I hope it is you asking.

George

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