IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN ALERT

PRAYER MOMENT

Friday 11 December 2015

IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN ALERT

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “If only you had been alert to my commandments, your happiness would have been like a river.” (Isaiah 48:17-19)

Reflection. This promise of Isaiah is relayed by Jesus when he tells the Jews they are like children in the market place in the game where you play pipes and they are supposed to dance. But they don’t.. God’s relationship with us is an invitation - not a command backed up by force. But it is “backed up” in the sense that if we do not follow his invite things will not work out for us. We bring disaster on ourselves. No one forces us to keep fuel in our tank but if we don’t it has consequences.. So the words to the woman at the well (John 4) hold good: “if you only knew the gift of God…!”..

Prayer. Lord, may we know the gift that you offer us and may we wholeheartedly welcome it. Amen.