PRAYER PAUSE
Saturday 21 October 2017
A FREE
GIFT
Pause. Enter into the stillness
of God within.
Reading: “That is why what fulfils the
promise depends on faith, so that it may be a free git and available to all.” (Romans
4:13-18)
Reflection. The letter to the Romans is
shot through with this teaching on faith. Paul explained this dominant theme of
the gospel – though the actual four gospels we have were not yet written in his
time. Paul is imbued with a sense of the gift God has given us in Jesus. Jesus
makes all the difference. Without him we were helpless to build a better world.
With him there is nothing we cannot do. And it is all a gift. We can do nothing
to bring it on. By a free gift God has now opened up human nature to its full
capacity for the divine. Paul is absorbed by this realisation. And we are
invited to join him.
Prayer. Lord, may we deeply understand
your presence in all things. Whether we know it or not you are the leaven
gradually transforming our world – despite our resistance to change. Amen.
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