HOW HARD IT IS!

PRAYER MOMENT 

Monday 25 May 2015, Africa Day

HOW HARD IT IS!

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Jesus said to his disciples, ‘How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!’ The disciples were astounded by these words.” (Mark 10:17-27)

Reflection. Perhaps the disciples were astonished because wealth was often seen in ancient times as a blessing from God. Think of Abraham’s flocks. But Jesus is pointing to an attitude. People who are absorbed in their search for money are showing an attitude that says ‘I have to do everything myself. I am in charge. I take care of myslf.’ While those who aim to make money but also trust that God will provide if my efforts fail, are showing they go beyond the concrete secular world to the world beyond our senses, which is as real to them as the one they can touch and see. It is not his wealth that enslaved the man who came to Jesus but his attitude. On this day that we celebrate all that is “Africa” let us ask for a pure attitude towards the thngs of this visible world, an attitude that is always open to the horizon of the invisible..   

     

Prayer. Lord, help us not to be trapped into absorption in the things of this concret material world but help us to use it as a springboard to raise our minds and hearts to you. Amen.

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