JUMPING AND PRAISING GOD

PRAYER MOMENT 

Easter Wednesday 8 April 2015

JUMPING AND PRAISING GOD

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: Instantly his feet and ankles became firm, he junped up, stood, and began to walk and be went with them into the Temple, walking and jumping and praising God. (Acts 3:1-10).

Reflection. It seems everyone has their story about how the resurrection touched their lives. Here we have a cripple from birth, who never knew the joy of walking and running. Peter and John ‘looked straight at him’ and healed him. Jesus had ‘looked at Peter’ when the cock crew and ‘healed him.’ Two disciples, giving up on Jesus, headed for Emmaus. Jesus caught up with them and their hearts ‘burned within them.’ All these instances involve a connection, a relationship. The healing depends on a response. Our experience of the resurrection calls on us to ‘look.’ ‘This generation looks for signs and signs will not be given to them.’ Jesus looks for relationship and that is what gives life.

Prayer. Lord, help us to open our eyes and see you risen from the dead and coming towards us to give us healing, hope and joy. Amen.

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