Tuesday, 7 July 2015

FAMINE ALL OVER THE WORLD

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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