PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday 28 August 2013
DEAD MEN’S BONES
Pause. Be still.
Reading. “You are
like the whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are
full of dead men’s bones.” (Matt 23:27-32)
Reflection. Jesus
is really angry, and it is all due to the obstinacy and hypocrisy of the
religious leaders. They live by appearances and show on the outside but within
they are hollow and rotten. His final throwaway line is, “you are the sons of
those who murdered the prophets! Very well the, finish off the work that your
fathers began.” It is a cry of deep anger, but it is also a challenge; do what
you have to do but you will find that it leads nowhere. God will overcome all
this evil and build a new people. The capacity for people to renew themselves
in every age, to rise up from frustration and humiliation, is ever present. The
earth itself – and, we are now told, the universe – renews itself constantly.
Evil cannot win. It can only harass.
Prayer. Lord, I
want to be awake to the evil in myself and in the world. Give me a passion to
fight against it. But also teach me to believe deeply that evil cannot triumph.
You have overcome it and given us hope that all will be well in the end. Amen
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