PRAYER MOMENT
Monday
8 June 2015
THE
GOD OF ALL CONSOLATION
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Blessed be the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, a gentle Father and the God of all
consolation, who comforts us in all our sorrows, so that we can offer others,
in their sorrows, the consolation that we have receieved from God ourselves.” (2
Cor 1:1-7)
Reflection. This opening passage from
Paul’s second letter to the church in Corinth immediately sets the tone of the new
relationship with God revealed by Jesus. He is not a distant judgemental God who
watches us to see where we fail, no more than a mother watches her child to
catch them making a mistake. He is a God who loves us and watches our progress ‘with
delight’ as any mother would her growing child. We let the phrase ‘the God of
all consolation’ sink into to us; this is the true nature of God. If you wanted
to describe in a word what the early Jesuits thought they were doing in the
sixteenth century when they began to travel Europe and indeed the world, this would
sum it up: they were bringing the consolation of God to people.
Prayer. Lord, teach us to know you
as our lovng God of all consolation and encouragement and help us never to lose
heart. Amen.
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