LET US CUT HIM OFF

PRAYER MOMENT 

Saturday 21 March 2015

LET US CUT HIM OFF

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “I for my part was like a trustful lamb bing led to the slaughter-house, not knowing the schemds they were plotting against me, ‘Let us destroy the tree in its strength, let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be quickly forgotten.’” (Jeremiah 11:18-20)

Reflection. How often violence and death are used to destroy opposition! We will cut him or them off and that will be the end of it. Yet the seed of freedom, or truth, once sown cannot be destroyed. It will reappear. You cannot suppress such yearnings in the human heart. It cannot be ‘cut off.’ It is like parents trying to control how their children will develop. It can’t be done. An arrow once released from the bow has a life of its own.. Any idea that the Jews could control Jesus and his message by ‘cutting him off’ sounds ludicrous. It is a consoling thought that a force, a truth or a life giving message, once launched, cannot be stopped. It would be like trying to retrieve the rain falling from the heavens.  

Prayer. Lord, thank you for the Spirit you plant in our hearts, a Spirit that cannot be quietened; a spirit that always resurges anew. Amen.

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