HANDED OVER

PRAYER MOMENT

Saturday 28 September 2013

HANDED OVER

Pause.  Be in the presence ofGod.

Reading. “The Son of Man is going to be handed over into the power of men” (Luke 9:43-45)

Reflection. There is something deeply ominous about the phrase “handed over.” We speak of people being handed over to the police or to the doctors. It means a person is no longer free; they are now in someone else’s power. But this is exactly what God did in sending his Son into the world. He “handed him over” so that he could live among men and women and being in their midst he could lead them back, “hand them over”, to God. But first, the Son had to enter deeply into human life and so he handed himself over to whatever it meant to be among people. Would they accept him or would they reject him? They rejected him. But he did not reject them or back off from the handover he had made. He accepted all the implications and because he was whom he was he overcame everything that men and women could throw at him and so could hand them over to the Father.

Prayer. Lord, teach us to always rejoice in your coming to be one of us, your “incarnation”. You have transformed what it is to be human forever. Teach us to know this, no matter what the troubles are we face. Amen