TO SAVE THEIR LIFE

PRAYER PAUSE

Friday 17 February 2017

TO SAVE THEIR LIFE

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: “For anyone who wants to save their life will lose it; but anyone who loses their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.” (Mark8:34- 9:1)

Reflection. We know this saying in Mark is central to his presentation of Jesus. Mark takes his time before introducing it. He first takes us through all the lack of belief stories right up to the cured blind man seeing people “who looked like trees walking about.”  It is one thing to know the saying; it is quite another to see its application when something hits us – when I am “put down,” misjudged, “slighted” or when illness strikes or an accident. We get absorbed in our trouble and cannot hear these words of Jesus. Yet the challenge remains: somehow we are to bring our experience and the gospel together.

Prayer. Lord, help us to see the gospel shining through our day, as the sun shines through the trees of the forest. Amen.