PRAYER PAUSE
Thursday 18
August 2016
A HEART OF FLESH
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “I shall give you a new heart, and
put a new spirit in you; I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies and
give you a heart of flesh instead.” (Ezekiel 36:23-28)
Reflection. God sounds excited about his plans.
He sounds like one longing to get more deeply involved in the human drama. He
wants to come close to us and pour out his life into our hearts, like the water
pouring over the Victoria Falls which I saw, once again, this week. Despite all
our failures, documented in the Old Testament, the Lord is eager to proclaim
the new way, the new kingdom, which will transform human hearts. We see seeds
of this everywhere; people reaching out to one another; in sport, in art, in development
– even in politics. But the heart of stone is hard to remove. It persists.
Prayer. Lord, give
us this heart of flesh. We long to see our world transformed. And – for instance
– the Syrian people at peace with one another Amen
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