PRAYER MOMENT (This
may be the last for some days as I am not sure of the internet where I will be).
Tuesday
30 December 2013
CHILDREN OF GOD
Pause. “Be silent;
be still, before your God...”
Reading. “To
those who accepted him he gave power to become children of God” (John 1:1-18)
Reflection. We end the year with the breath taking vision
of the opening of John’s gospel. Where the synoptic writers get straight into detail
of the temple and the stable John takes us back to “the beginning” of creation
and beyond. As in the opening of the book of Genesis we are to imagine a void,
a time when there was nothing. “All that came to be had life in him.” Not just human
life but “power to become children of God”, that is to say, to share in the
divine life. It is an awesome thought to end the year on and something on which
to build our New Year. That young man, standing at the intersection selling
juice cards, is also destined to share the life of God for ever, as are those
people tricked and trafficked into migrating from Africa to Europe and Asia who
end up in torture camps and squalor.
Prayer. Inspire
us, your children, Lord, with your promise of the fullness of life as we enter
a new year. Help us to see that we and all your people have this great destiny
and help us to join hands in 2014 to make our society a place that reflects
your image.Amen.
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