NEITHER WILL I TELL YOU

PRAYER MOMENT 

Saturday 30 May 2015

NEITHER WILL I TELL YOU

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “So their reply to Jesus was, ‘we do not know.’ And Jesus said to them, ‘Nor will I tell you my authority for acting like this.’” (Mark 11:27-33)

Reflection. The Jews questioned Jesus’ authority for driving out the sellers from the temple. He knew that they were not seeking truth and wisdom but simply a means to trap him and avoid facing up to the challenge of his mission. So, because their minds were closed, they would receive no answer. The enigmatic saying of Jesus elsewhere in the gospel – ‘to those who have will be given more, to those who have not even what they have will be taken away’ – fits in here. And it is a frightening thing: to close off, though prejudice and jealousy, any hope of advancing on the way of wisdom. But it is fairly common.

 

Prayer. Lord, we pray for ourselves and for all who though their hardness of heart, deliberately or imconsciously, close the door to your coming. Amen.

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