YOUR LIBERATION IS NEAR

PRAYER MOMENT

Thursday 28 November 2013

YOUR LIBERATION IS NEAR

Pause.  Be still. Enter into your silence within.

Reading. “For great misery will descend on the land and wrath on this people. …When these things begin to take place, stand erect, hold your heads high, because your liberation is near at hand.” (Luke 21: 20-28)

Reflection. We like building houses, planting fields, buying a nice car and settling down. We long for peace, order and a settled comfortable life. Good! But how come the readings at the end of the church’s year are full of foreboding, threats of war, vengeance and misery? There will be tsunamis and typhoons, droughts and fires, disease and accidents. And the Son of Man will come and we are to stand erect and hold our heads high. Perhaps two thoughts come: whatever we build here is only provisional; it is no more than a campsite on a journey. And the second thought is that trial is built into human life; it was part of Jesus’ life and it will be part of my life. It is not a disaster; it is part of the great human journey to God.  

Prayer. Lord, how ever much I want to settle down help me to see that everything is provisional and fragile and can change in a moment. But you do not change and you steadily draw me to yourself no matter what the circumstances of my life. Help me to trust. Amen.