MANY WILL SAY, ‘LORD, LORD.’

PRAYER MOMENT

Thursday 25 June 2015

MANY WILL SAY, ‘LORD, LORD.’

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “When the day comes many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophecy in your name? … Then I will say to them, ‘I have never known yoou.’” (Matt.7:21-29)

Reflection. It seems Jesus is pointing to that terrible emptiness where people use the Church and her teachings as a convenient part of the furniture of their life. You often see it in the papers where the Church is praised for this or that, or is invoked and quoted. But you have the feeling that the church is being used to fit into a preconceived way of seeing the world. When tamed in this way the Church loses her vigour and challenge. She is reduced to a public asset whose building is used for concerts and exhibitions and is simply part of the urban landscape like the public library and the railway station. This is all far from the witness to proclaiming the truth “in season and out of season” which is the whole reason for the Church’s existence.

Prayer. Teach us, Lord, to know that there is a cost in being your disciple; that we are called to be with you as you struggle to bring the world to a sense of its destiny. Amen.

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