WHAT YOU HAVE COME TO

PRAYER MOMENT Thursday 5 February 2015, St Agatha WHAT YOU HAVE COME TO Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within. Reading: “What you have come to is the city of the living God where everyone is a ‘first born’ and a citizen of heaven.” (Hebrews 12:18-24) Reflection. The letter to the Hebrews in its closingchapters presses home the message that we have now been led into the presence of God by Jesus. We have not come to the frightening scenes on Mount Sinai that the early Israeites witnessed but to the gentle presence. This is not something in the fuure. We already have entered this presence here and now. We ‘have come’ to it. It is not something we ‘will come’ to. The Christian life is lived ‘in God.’ But let us not cheapen these words and make them too familiar. We still approach the living God with awe and wonder as well as confidence and intimacy. Any complacency about our faith would be dangerous. Ours is a troublesome though joyful journey. Prayer. Lord, we pray for confedence, courage and joy as me live in your presence all the days of our life. Amen. David Harold-Barry SJ