PRAYER MOMENT
Tuesday
26 November 2013
THE END IS NOT SO SOON
Pause. Enter into the silence within.
Reading. “You
will hear of wars and revolutions, do not be frightened, for this is something
that must happen but the end is not so soon.” (Luke 21: 5-11)
Reflection. There
is sometimes a longing to end it all. As children we long for the end of term.
As adults we are curious about the end of the world. There were great
expectations in the year 999 and again, in our time, in 1999. Why do people
long for the end? Jesus said it is a distraction; it is something to take
people’s minds off the present. There are things to be done now in the
complexities of our personal, social and political life. To spend time dreaming
about the end, or preaching about it, is to avoid the thing in hand. The end of
the world will take care of itself if we do our work now.
Prayer. Lord,
teach us to concentrate on the tings at hand; the things we can create, influence
or improve. Do not let us be distracted by fantasies and false promises. Amen.
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