PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 13
July 2016
LORD OF
HEAVEN AND EARTH
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and
revealing them to mere children.” (Matt 11:25-27)
Reflection. Half way through the gospel Matthew
gives us this exclamation of Jesus. We so want to understand and explain – the Trinity,
for instance. But Jesus doesn’t explain. He tells us to address God as ‘Father’.
He describes himself as the one ‘sent’ to reveal God and his plan and that he
and the Father are one. And he says the Spirit will ‘lead us into all truth.’
Full stop! The Trinity is for us to wonder and adore – not to understand. All
we can say is there is a relationship in the Trinity, perhaps a creative
tension. But we cannot probe. We are sure to try and make the Trinity in our
own image, fit our own frames of reference. It is best to be silent.
Prayer. Our Father, we rejoice that we know
you, through Jesus. May your Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, lead us to you. Amen
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