Wednesday, 22 June 2016

FOUNDED ON ROCK

PRAYER PAUSE


Thursday 23 June 2016  


FOUNDED ON ROCK


Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.


Reading: “Rain came down, floods rose, gales blew and hurled themselves against that house and it did not fall; it was founded on rock.” (Matt 7:21-29)


Reflection. In our current daily readings we hear of the short lived reforms of King Josiah around 640 BC. It seems the king had good intentions but they did not penetrate society; there was no follow through, no solid strategy. Political promises and our own resolutions can be so fragile, so ephemeral, so quickly abandoned and forgotten. They are not rooted. They have no foundation. Jesus ends his Sermon on the Mount with the image of a house built on rock. That is what we do, we build on rock, when we “listen to these words of mine and act on them.”


Prayer. Lord, help us to root our lives in you and in your words. Amen


































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