NOTHING I SAY HAS PENETRATED INTO YO

PRAYER MOMENT           ( A little late today. Apologies!)

Wednesday 9 April 2014

NOTHING I SAY HAS PENETRATED INTO YOU

Pause. Be still in the presence of God

Reading: “You want to kill me because nothing I say has penetrated into you.’” (John 8:31-42)

Reflection. As we approach Holy Week the confrontation is being ratcheted up. The opponents of Jesus, simply called “the Jews”, had called on Moses as their witness but Jesus had told them that, “He spoke of me.” Now they go back to Abraham but Jesus will tell them, “He longed to see my day.” The truth is they simply don’t want to look at the evidence. Their mind is made up. “Nothing I say has penetrated into you.” If they could just look at the facts, if they could allow their minds for one minute to allow their questions to come to the surface, they would see the truth, and “the truth will make you free.” How often we have seen this happen! A husband sees his wife in a new light and rejoices. A person sees his own compulsions and “makes friends with them.” He is no longer enslaved by them. He or she is free.  

  

Prayer. Lord, as we watch and pray in these days of your great rejection, help us to be open to the truth about ourselves, our relationships, compulsions and everything that is “disordered” in our lives. Amen.

David Harold-Barry SJ