PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 16 January 2018
THE
SABBATH IS MADE FOR US
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “The Sabbath was made for
man, not man for the Sabbath; so the Son of Man is master even of he Sabbath.”
(Mark 2:23-28)
Reflection. We quickly assent to this
saying of Jesus, “the Sabbath is made for man”, and easily see the hypocrisy of
the Pharisees in trying to use Sabbath regulations to buttress their control over
the people. But it is hard to break with “peer pressure” – as the Pharisee Nicodemus
did - when we are in a situation where “everyone
does it” and the “it” is a compromise. Not long ago I was in hospital and,
while the surgeon was wonderful in every way, I was disturbed at the attitude
of the nurses who seemed to ignore the needs of the patients and spent a lot of
time chatting noisily among themselves. I reflected how hard it would be for a
nurse who thought differently to actually act differently and go against her
peers.
Prayer. Lord, give us the courage
to do what our heart tells us to do -
not what our peers do when they compromise with what is right and true. Amen
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