Wednesday, 17 August 2016

A HEART OF FLESH

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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