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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