Wednesday 30 March 2016

HE OPENED THEIR MINDS

PRAYER MOMENT


Easter Thursday 31 March 2016   


HE OPENED THEIR MINDS


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “He then opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘So you see how it was written that the Christ would suffer and on the third day rise from the dead.” (Luke 24:35-48)


Reflection. The disciples would have known the scriptures. They would have been taught them from childhood and in the synagogue week by week. They thought they understood them. But now they are “dumbfounded.” They realised they had had no idea what they meant. And we struggle too to make sense of some of the things that happen in our life. And we too hear his words, ‘Why are you so agitated and why these doubts?’ In our reading from Acts 3 today we hear Peter saying, ‘I know you had no idea.’ He could have said the same about himself.


Prayer. Lord, may we grow in understanding as to how you are at work in our world today, despite events that dismay us. Amen





























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