SOMETHING AGAINST HIM

PRAYER MOMENT  

Monday 7 September 2015

SOMETHING AGAINST HIM

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “The scribes and the Pharisees were watching him  to see if he would cure the man on the Sabbath, hoping to find something to use against him.” (Luke 6:6-11)

Reflection. Hardness of heart is a baffling condition but quite widespread. Jesus’ enemies were determined to find something against him. They could not open their hearts to what he was saying and doing. They made up their minds that he was a threat and that was that. He had to be got rid of. People have made up their minds about global warming  - that it is a false scare – or about GMOs – that they are a good thing - without really facing the facts, which are too much of a threat to them. It is odd in such a rational age as ours that people can be so irrational. That is why the shift in attitude in Europe towards migrants  - they are now being welcomed – is such a warming (another kind of warming) development. We can change!

Prayer. Lord, help us not to harden our hearts, as the people did at Meribah in the desert (Psalm 95). May we be truly open to your word coming to us in the people and events of each day. Amen.