Thursday, May 17, 2018
Youcat commented through CCC – Question n. 471 – Part II.
(Youcat
answer - repeated) Abraham listened to God. He was willing to set out for
wherever God commanded and to do what God willed. By his listening and his
readiness to make a new start, he is a model for our prayer.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC
2570 a) When God calls
him, Abraham goes forth "as the Lord had told him" (Gen 12:4);
Abraham's heart is entirely submissive to the Word and so he obeys. Such
attentiveness of the heart, whose decisions are made according to God's will,
is essential to prayer, while the words used count only in relation to it.
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) Not many prayers of Abraham have been handed
down. But wherever he went, he set up altars, places of prayer, to God. And so
along the journey of his life he had many sorts of experiences with God,
including some that tried and unsettled him. When Abraham saw that God was
going to destroy the sinful city of Sodom, he pleaded for it. He even wrestled
stubbornly with God. His plea for Sodom is the first great intercessory prayer
in the history of the People of God.
(CCC Comment)
(CCC
2570 b) Abraham's
prayer is expressed first by deeds: a man of silence, he constructs an altar to
the Lord at each stage of his journey. Only later does Abraham's first prayer
in words appear: a veiled complaint reminding God of his promises which seem
unfulfilled (Cf. Gen 15:2 f). Thus one aspect of the drama of prayer appears
from the beginning: the test of faith in the fidelity of God.
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