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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