PRAYER PAUSE
Tuesday 7 February 2017
IN THE IMAGE
OF GOD
Pause. Enter into the stillness of God
within.
Reading: “In the image of God he created him,
male and female he created them.” (Genesis1:20-2:4)
Reflection. Three times in this Genesis text we
read this phrase, “the image of God,” the icon of God. We let this expression
sink in. Whatever our idea of the divine, God seems so utterly different. And
yet here we have this statement in the opening words of the bible. As the
Church pondered this ever more deeply she came to see the dignity of men and
women and assert this dignity in her teaching. She learnt too from civil
society of human rights and duties. I love that saying of Ruth Burrows, “Jesus is
truly human because he is divine.”
Prayer. Lord, you created
us in love so and gave us the capacity to grow into the divine – to become “divinised”.
Help us grasp this calling. Amen.
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