PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 6 June 2018, St Norbert
NEITHER
THE SCRIPTURES NOR THE POWER OF GOD
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading: “’Is not the reason why you go wrong that you understand neither the scriptures
nor the power of God.” (Mark 12:18-27)
Reflection. Now it is the Sadducees’
turn to ask a trick question. Like the Pharisees they are not interested in understanding
Jesus. They just want to get the better
of him. They pose a silly question about a woman marrying seven brothers in turn. Jesus is blunt with them: they may be
religious leaders but they do not have a clue about God and his purpose. Yet we cannot be self-satisfied and say, “Ah,
but we know” Do we? Do we understand the
purpose of God in our lives? Our whole
task as followers of Jesus is to come to know him. Fr Sosa, General of the Jesuits,
was asked on Canadian TV the other day about this purpose. Almost repeating Fr
Arrupe, an earlier general, he said, “It is to fall in love with Jesus.” It is to have Jesus totally at the centre of
our lives. Then we simply can’t go
wrong.
Prayer. Lord, teach us to place you
at the centre of all that we do. Help us
to seek to know and love you. Amen
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