PRAYER PAUSE
Monday 16 January 2017
IN TEARS
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “In the days of his flesh, Jesus
offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who
was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.”
(Hebrews :5:1-10)
Reflection. This is the most astonishing
statement in the bible. Nowhere else do we get such a raw description of the
human Jesus, struggling against the evil that rose up to meet him. Taken together
with Mark’s description of the agony Jesus endured in the garden it gives us a
picture of Jesus who touched the deepest suffering of human beings. His total
offering of himself with us and for us is breath taking. He has plumbed the deepest recesses of human suffering.
Prayer. Lord, you entered
so fully into our human condition. May we draw courage and endurance from your communion with us.
Amen
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