Wednesday, 2 March 2016

THEY WILL NOT LISTEN

PRAYER MOMENT


Thursday 3 March 2016   


THEY WILL NOT LISTEN


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “You may say all these words to them: they will not listen to you; you may call them: they will not answer.” (Jer 7:23-28)


Reflection. What a painful sadness subfuses this judgement! It is a comment on the deep obstinacy of human nature that refuses to change because men and women refuse to examine life from an alternative perspective. “My mind is made up.” The painful history of Rhodesia and then Zimbabwe over the past 90 years is an example. First one group, then another, became determined to pursue their own agenda without attending to how it affects the life of others. We can see it “out there” but we know too we have to look within ourselves, especially in Lent. That is what it is for. It is a moment of opportunity to look again “with rinsed eyes.”


Prayer. Lord, help us to be open to whatever way you are nudging and calling us now. Amen.

























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