PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday
4 March 2015
HANDED
OVER
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Now we are going to
Jerusalem , and the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the chief priests
and scribes.” (Matthew 20:17-28)
Reflection. What a deeply painful phrase
this ‘handed over’ is when we know all that happened in Jerusalem. It is done
to Jesus but he does not flinch or run away. He knows that this entering into human
sorrow and tragedy is the way to conquer and release men and women from their
shackles. Hannah had ‘handed over’ her only son, Samuel, to the Lord (1 Sam 1:28)
in an astonishing act of faith reminiscent of Mary’s ‘let it be done to me.’
What does it mean, to hand over my life to God? This is the calling of all
followers of Jesus. Yet we know that we keep a deadly hold, as Ruth Burrows
often says, over our own lives. It just seems too much to ask, to hand
ourselves over to God.
Prayer. Lord, you said, ‘anyone who
loses his life will find it.’ Teach us what these words mean and help us to
stretch out towards you. Amen.
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