YES, YOU KNOW ME

PRAYER MOMENT 

Friday 20 March 2015

YES, YOU KNOW ME

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Yes, you know me and you know where I come from.” (John 7:1 …30)

Reflection. It is just two weeks to Good Friday and the clouds are gathering. John uses powerful irony. “You know me.” They don’t. They don’t have a clue who he is. They have no idea what he is intent on doing. The people saw him as a great teacher, a miracle worker, a healer – attributes that we admire and many today see Jesus in this way and stop there. But as for any idea that he has come to enter into the depths of human suffering – of being trapped with no hope of escaping alive, like the captives of ISIS facing beheading today – any such idea is hiden from them. As we approach the climax of Lent we want to try to come to know this Lord who carries our burdens and goes right down into the hell of human wickedness.

Prayer. Lord, grant that we may know you in your passion and come to love you more and follow you. Amen.

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