“Have faith in God”

“When you pray for something, believe that it will be granted to you, and so it will be” Mt 11:11-25

After his entry into Jerusalem, Jesus goes to the temple and then returns to Bethany. The next day He returns to Jerusalem and on the way He looks for fruit on a leafy fig tree on the road but finds nothing but leaves. That disappoints him and when He arrives back at the temple, his disappointment is even greater: they have turned it into a place of buying and selling. How far his people are from an authentic relationship with the God who brought them out of Egypt and restored their dignity.  Their relationship with him is one of appearances, of rites that correspond only to already empty traditions, such as the leafy leaves of the fig tree. Jesus then invites his own to have total trust in God, with the assurance that they will be heard. Jesus loves us with a firm faith, a trusting prayer and always ready to forgive.