PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 27
July 2016
HE SELLS
EVERYTHING
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “The kingdom of heaven is like a
treasure someone has found … He goes off happy and sells everything and buys it.”
(Matt 13:44-46)
Reflection. It is a question of attitude. Jesus is
not asking everyone – though he does ask a few – to go off and sell everything.
But he does ask us to have the attitude of putting the reign of God, the values
of the kingdom, before everything. That 84 year old priest who was murdered
yesterday in France was celebrating the Eucharist, as he did every day. There were
just seven people present. The complexities of modernity with its optimism on
the one hand and emptiness on the other, combined with the ravages of IS, are “sold”,
put to one side, by a man who concentrates his attention on what is to be done
now.
Prayer. Lord, may we hold to the values of
your way in the midst of uncertainty. Amen
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