BUILT INTO A HOUSE

PRAYER PAUSE

Friday 28 October 2016, Simon and Jude

BUILT INTO A HOUSE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “And you too, in him, are built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit.” (Ephesians 2:19-22)

Reflection. We just have their names. We know nothing else. But it allows us to ponder that God calls each of us “by name.” We are baptised by name and our name follows us everywhere. It connects us to family, community and it builds us into the whole people of God. The writers of the gospels were insistent on giving the names of the twelve. They did not try to say more about some of them like these two. They disappear. And so do we. But we are part of something that gives us identity, purpose and endless joy.

 

Prayer. Lord, may we relish our membership of the building you create in the Spirit. Amen