PRAYER PAUSE
Friday 18 November 2016
THEY DID NOT
SEE HOW
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “They tried to do away with him, but
they did not see how hey could carry this out.” (Luke 19:451-48)
Reflection. So it was not decided till the very
end – like the US election. The Jewish leaders were determined to “do away with
him” but could not find a way. And Jesus, even in the garden, hoped it could be
avoided. Few martyrs go to their deaths willingly. Death is the great enemy.
But if there is no other way of working through the truth – whatever it is –
then it has to be. Jesus “set his face like flint”, meaning he calmly and
determinedly accepted the price of witnessing to the truth, and the truth set
him, and sets all of us, free.
Prayer. Lord, help
us to be faithful each day in all the little events of life. Amen.
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