WHAT BELONGS TO CAESAR

PRAYER MOMENT  (This may not appear over the next few days. I will be on the move)

Tuesday 2 June 2015

WHAT BELONGS TO CAESAR

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Whose head is this?” “Caesar’s.” they told him. Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.” (Mark 12:13-17)

Reflection. Jesus gives a neat answer to those who desire to trap him and they were taken “completely by surprise.” They failed to make him say something compromising but, it seems, they also failed to note his words. He was pushing the question back to them. “Make your own descision,” he is saying, “about what belongs to politics and what belongs to the invitation of God in your heart.” Don’t muddle them up and bend the one to fit with the other. Above all don’t use God and talk of God loosely, trying to tie God into your own egocentric, self-serving decisions. It does not look like they were listening and we have to ask ourselves if we are? The Father “draws us” (John 6:44) and we have to be on guard that we don’t dilute the call of his love into something less.  

Prayer. Lord, help us to heed your clear call to give our lives to you and to one another. Let us not be diverted to something less. Amen.

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