PRAYER MOMENT
Wednesday
8 July 2015
FAMINE
ALL OVER THE WORLD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Go to Joseph and do what
he tells you.” There was famine all over the world. Then Joseph opened all the
grameries. (Genesis 41, 42)
Reflection. We hear only brief extracts
from the Joseph story in the daily readings but they remind us of his prophetic
life. There was indeed a “famine” over the earth for it was a world that did
not know God. Joseph’s sufferings and “death and resurrection” would brings
life to his brothers and “the whole world” but one of their number too would
have to undergo a sort of “death” in Egypt before the joyful moment arrived –
as it did in the upper room after the resurrection of Jesus - when they would
all “stand there dumbfounded and astonished” (Luke 24). That joy is the joy of
the follower of Jesus too.
Prayer. Lord, the story of the people
of Israel is our story of exile too. Lead us to the joy of recognising you
among our brothers and sisters. Amen.
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