PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 19 October 2016, The Martyrs
of North America
DEPTHS IN
THE MYSTERY
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “If you read my words, you will have
some idea of the depths I see in the mystery of Christ.” (Ephesians 3:2-12)
Reflection. In the first half of the 1600s the
Jesuits tried to go up the rivers of Canada into the heart of North America.
They met with ferocious hostility and cruel deaths. They were, along with Paul,
seeking to share their understanding of what it meant that God had entered
human history in the person of Jesus. Paul’s letter to the Romans and
Corinthians explain what happened but here in Ephesians – and in Colossians –
he moves into the future, the fulfilment of the promises. He feels he is well
ahead of his hearers in his grasp of the mystery but he struggles to give us “some
idea” what it means.
Prayer. Lord, may
we have some grasp of the mystery you reveal in Jesus and draw strength and joy
from your walking with us on the way. Amen
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