PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday 31 July 2013
THE MIND OF CHRIST JESUS
Pause. Be still
in the presence of God.
Reading. “Have
this mind among yourselves, which was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in
the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but
emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of
men.” (Phil 2:1-18)
Reflection. Ignatius
of Loyola, whose feast we keep today, shifted his thinking from gaining fame in
the service of the king of Spain, to totally giving himself to the service of
Jesus. But even then, at first, he had his own ideas what this might mean. He
had to come to a second conversion when he left for ever his own plans and welded
himself to the divine plan, just as Jesus himself did in the Garden of Gethsemane.
And it was not just in the big issues but even in the smallest events of the
day he set himself to “find God in all things.”
Prayer. Lord, on
this day when we find ourselves in the midst of a charged election in Zimbabwe,
teach us to have your mind and the see things through your eyes. Lead us to the
peace and unity that you offer. Amen.
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