PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 17 October 2018,
Ignatius of A|ntioch
IF
YOU ARE LED BY THE sPIRIT
Enter
into the stillness of God within.
Reading ”If you are led by the
Spirit no law can touch you.’” Galatians 3:15-25)
Reflection. The letter to the Galatians
is like a shout of Paul at his contemporaries: ‘Wake up! The Spirit can change
you. Stop looking back to the “security”
of your childhood, your home, your “Egypt” where you were satisfied with the “fleshpots”. Realise that God has announced in Jesus a new world where men and women can achieve
the fullness of their own personal lives, their gifts and value!’ The ‘safety ‘ of sticking to secure ways, of
accepting things as they are, is so strong for us . The ‘losing oneself’ in order to find oneself
seems so risky. So we settle down for a second class life, comfortable and
secure. “Are you Galations so much out of your mind,” Paul cries at one point,
that you abandon the inheritance won for you by Christ?
Prayer. Lord, teach us the joy of
Christian freedom. Amen.
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