Seek the Trinity

Meditation from Luke Chapter 11

The disciples of Jesus asked Him to teach to pray and He said to them, “When you pray, say:

Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us day by day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (Luke 11:2-4)

1. Seek the Father – What is to seek the Father? It is to glorify His name, seek His kingdom and to do His will. (Luke 11:2)

If we truly seek the Father whatever we do we will glorify His name and we will not cause defame to God’s name.

If we truly seek the Father we will seek the kingdom of God; that will be our priority in life.

If we truly seek the Father we will seek and do only His will and not live according to our desires and wish.

2. Seek the Son – Jesus taught us to pray and ask the Lord to give us day-by-day our daily bread (Luke 11:3).

Jesus says in Matthew 6:25, “do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?” If then what bread do we need more importantly?

Jesus said about Himself in John 6:51, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

Jesus is the Word of God and it is this Word that we need to hunger and seek after every day. Jesus reveals Himself as ‘greater than Solomon’ in Luke 11:31) and that the queen of the South came from the ends of the earth to hear the Wisdom of Solomon (11:31).

If we truly seek the Son, how much hunger we will have for this Living Bread, the word of God!

It is not sufficient that we only seek after the word of God, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!” (Luke 11:28)

3. Seek the Holy Spirit – “…how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him” (Luke 11:13). Jesus exhorts us to pray and receive the Holy Spirit.

In the third portion of the prayer Jesus taught to pray saying, “And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” (Luke 11:4).

While clearing the people’s doubts about casting about demons Jesus says, “If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub.” (Luke 11:18). He makes the people to understand that it is through the Holy Spirit that He is casting the demons.

Next while talking about the unclean spirit leaving a man, Jesus says that when the unclean spirit returns and finds it swept and put in order, he goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked and they enter and dwell and the last state of the man becomes worse than the first. (11:24-26). This delivered man’s life needs to be filled with the Holy Spirit!

We need the presence and power of the Holy Spirit to overcome temptation and to be delivered from the evil one (Luke 11:4).

Let us be purposeful (Luke 11:2-4) and persistent in prayer (11:8) that we may glorify the Father’s Name, seek His Kingdom, do His Will, hunger the Lord’s Word and overcome the evil one, sin and temptation through the fullness of the Holy Spirit.