PRAYER PAUSE
Thursday 7
July 2016
STOOPING
DOWN
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I was like someone who lifts an
infant close to his cheek; stooping down to him I gave him his food.” (Hosea 11:1…9)
Reflection. What a homely image of God’s love for
his people! We often see a mother stoop down to lift her child up to her cheek.
God is like that with Israel and so with his people always. Hosea is a tender prophet.
God treats us like her infant child, her growing child and her adult child.
There is care and concern and no possibility of forgetting. Isaiah and the
psalms echo these descriptions. The more we are conscious of this motherly love
the more we are confident and secure in our own engagement with the world and
all its challenges.
Prayer. Lord, may we know your great love for
us and draw strength from this conviction. Amen
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