Thursday, 31 March 2016

THEY ARRESTED THEM

PRAYER MOMENT


Easter Friday 1 April 2016   


THEY ARRESTED THEM


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “They were extremely annoyed at their teaching the people the doctrine of the resurrection from the dead by proclaiming the resurrection of Jesus. They arrested them…” (Acts4:1-12)


Reflection. It was a short honey moon and within a week of Good Friday we find ourselves reading about the arrest of the apostles. They were quickly tasting the reality of the cross. Easter does not cancel Good Friday. We will have Good Friday with us till we die. Yet we are often caught unawares and unprepared when suffering comes. Why me? And why now? I know it is easy to say but Good Friday is the very stuff of our lives. Easter just reinterprets it for us. We see things anew and can glimpse, for instance, why in 1943 a group of Dutch Jews sang psalms while the train carried them to their deaths.  


Prayer. Lord, may Easter cast new light on each day we live. Amen





























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