PRAYER PAUSE
Wednesday 11 January 2017
COMPLETELY
LIKE HIS BROTHERS
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “It was essential that he should in
this way become completely like his brothers so that he should in this way
become a compassionate and trustworthy high priest.” (Hebrews 2:14-18)
Reflection. Christmas is already slipping from
our memory but its powerful message never ceases to awe us. God became one of
us, “completely like us”, so that he could share in our daily life, work, joys,
frustrations, relationships, friendships, betrayals and all the human
experiences we know. He lived all this
but always with complete integrity and truth. The author of Hebrews will
tell us “he went ahead of us into the sanctuary” meaning he endured all life presented
to him and broke a way through for us. His suffering and death was our way to
life. We are to become “completely like” him and so attain or goal.
Prayer. Lord, we
desire to follow along the way you walked. Send us your Spirit each day to show
us how. Amen
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