PRAYER MOMENT
Easter Tuesday
29 March 2016
CUT TO THE
HEART
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “Hearing
this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles, ‘What must
we do brothers?’ ‘You must repent’, Peter answered.” (Acts 2:36-41)
Reflection. The word for ‘repent’ here, metanoesate, literally means ‘go beyond
your present way of thinking.’ The resurrection, the third and final (after the
incarnation and death) world transforming event, had utterly shaken the
apostles and disciples. They had a completely new understanding and now it was
time to proclaim this vision to the world. They had an immediate impact and, we
are told, thousands took note and received baptism. We live in hard bitten
times but we can try, these days, to relive what it must have been like then
and discover anew where it leads us now.
Prayer. Lord, may we too be ‘cut to the heart’
as we realise the impact on our world today of your rising from the dead. Amen
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