PUT THIS QUESTION TO THE AGES

PRAYER MOMENT  

Friday 7 August 2015

PUT THIS QUESTION TO THE AGES

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “Put this question to the ages that are past, that went before you, from the time God created man upon the earth. Was there ever a word so majestic, from one end of heaven to the other?” (Deutreronomy 4:32-40)

Reflection. There is a gasp of wonder as the story of the choice of Israel and its deliverance from Egypt unfurls. This is for real! God has made himself known to this people out of all the people on the earth. And a following question arises. Why us? And what is it all for? They cannot provide answers and even today people ask, “What is it all for?” If we have no vision of what it is all about we may get stuck in the present with its problems and not see the wider picture. The struggle of our age is perhaps between those who think with Protagoras, the Greek sophist of 2500 years ago, that “man is the measure of all things” and it ends there, and those who see man, humanity, as called to be divine, which is the true measure of the ages.

Prayer. Lord, help us to lift our eyes to you when we feel stuck in our daily concerns. Amen.

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