PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 15 May 2018
THE
HOUR HAS COME
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “Father, the hour has come: glorify your Son
so that your Son may glorify you.” (John 17:1-12)
Reflection. Jesus used to speak about “his
hour” and he would say “it has not yet come.”
But now there is a finality about his words; “the hour has come.” John Bradburne, the servant of the people living
with leprosy at Mutemwa in Zimbabwe, used, as a child, to hate going to school.
At the end of the holidays “the hour had come”!
Decisive momenmts – big and small – come on us in life: starting a profession,
a new job, married life, a new continent, etc,.
They are moemnts that challenge us and define us. The defining moment for Jesus and for the
world was his death and resurrection.
Death we are familiar with. We
have seen it often enough. But resurrection?
We
have no idea. But we can have a sense
that it is a breakthrough, an overcoming of all those limitations that cling to
us each day.
Prayer. Lord, give us a lively hope
in your victory over death and limitation.
May we share your joy in “overcoming” all that holds us down. Amen
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