Wednesday, 9 March 2016

YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES

PRAYER MOMENT


Thursday 10 March 2016   


YOU STUDY THE SCRIPTURES


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “You study the scriptures, believing that in them you have eternal life; now these same scriptures testify to me, yet you refuse to come to me for life!” (John 531-47)


Reflection. The theme now shifts to a trial scene. Much is made of the trial of Jesus in the Passion. But the whole of John’s gospel is a trial – not of Jesus but of the Jews and, by extension, all human kind. We search the scriptures but we hurry to conclude we understand what they say to us. We make up our mind and come to comfortable conclusions. Yet the tradition hammered out in the Church is to allow the scripture to speak to us; to spend time listening to the word. Something completely unexpected can happen. Some surprise breaks on me; not something frightening but something that totally fits with me, with my life.


Prayer. Lord, may we give time to your word to speak to us, to sink into us and help us understand your gift to us. Amen.



























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