PRAYER MOMENT
Thursday 15 August 2013
WERE YOU NOT BOUND/?
Pause. Place
yourself in the presence of God.
Reading. “I
cancelled all that debt of yours when you appealed to me. Were you not bound,
then, to have pity on your fellow servant just as I had pity on you?” (Matt 18:21-19:1)
Reflection. This
is the story of the man who had huge debts and, when he appealed to his master,
had them written off. He then meets a fellow servant who owes him a small sum
and who also appeals to him but he demands repayment. Why can’t he see, we ask,
that he should treat his fellow servant as he was treated? What blinds him from
making the connection? Does he feel no shame? It is a story that highlights the
cruelty and hardness of heart we often see today. People can lack all
compassion in their dealings with others. God is a God of compassion but for
some reason we find it so hard to learn from him.
Prayer. Lord
Jesus, I know that you are a God of tenderness and compassion, ready to reach
out to the oppressed and the lost. Teach me to have a heart like yours and to
lighten the burdens of my fellow pilgrims. Amen
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